Fine Arts Quotes - Page 5

• Sunday night meant, in the dark, wintry, rainy Midlands ... anywhere where two creatures might stand and squeeze together and spoon.... Spooning was a fine art, whereas kissing and cuddling are calf-processes.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Sunday, Dark

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.2093, Delphi Classics

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• I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities, math, and stuff like that. I think I had to take Art History, which I failed a few times.

  Stephen Furst

  Art, Mean, Math

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com.

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• Evolving Culture, Reality, as we perceive it, is largely shaped by the artifacts, both material and symbolic, of thought, thought that leads to creative manifestation in form and color. With that in mind, it might be suggested that the visual artist, - from commercial designer to fine art painter - has much to do with most things that enter your everyday visuals, and thus form a major portion of one's reality and, certainly, how this culture manifests and evolves.

  Robert Venosa

  Art, Reality, Color

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• The idea was to take fine art and put it into the location of the movie scripts. The script itself is collage - some of the lines come from actual movies and I've written others to make the text work with the found image. In this way, the details of old dead guys' paintings (from the collection of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, where this work will be exhibited in relation to the historical paintings) become illustrations of the movie scripts. I found this mélange of high art and Hollywood amusing.

  John Baldessari

  Art, Museums, Illustration

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• My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.

  Richard MacDonald

  Art, Goal, Soul

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• I've always been a fine artist.

  Joey Skaggs

  Artist, Fine, Fine Artists

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• Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed. There is a desperate need for creative Christians to redeem the visual arena from both forms of excess, cutting through all the false glamour, tawdry baseness and dense obfuscation.

  John Walford

  Christian, Art, Confused

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• Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.

  Beatrice Warde

  Art, Humility, Self

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• The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Law, Simplicity

  Arthur Schopenhauer “The Selected Works of Arthur Schopenhauer”, Library of Alexandria

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• Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.

  David Letterman

  Art, Fear, Fall

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• I'm a fine artist working in a commercial arena, so that's my cross to bear

  Joni Mitchell

  Artist, Bears, Arena

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• In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back.

  Colin MacInnes

  Art, England, Pops

  1961 England, Half English,'Pop Songs and Teenagers'.

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• The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.

  Robert Crumb

  Art, World, Littles

  "STYLE; An Eye for The Ladies". Interview with Lisa Eisner and Roman Alonso, www.nytimes.com. March 30, 2003.

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• We have devoted ourselves to the government and extension of the Church, and, among other objects, we have conceived it to be our duty to foster especially literature and the fine arts ... next to knowledge and true worship of the Creator, nothing is better or more useful to mankind than such studies.

  Pope Leo X

  Art, Government, Church

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• I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.

  Henri Matisse

  Expression, Gains, Clarity

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”

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• My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'

  Nancy Lublin

  Sexy, Art, Powerful

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• A standard saying among fly fishermen is that trout spend anywhere from 80 to 90 percent of their time feeding below the water's surface on the immature forms of aquatic insects. Some anglers are even more precise, but whatever the exact percentage , it's safe to say that to fully appreciate any tailwater fishery you will have to learn the fine art of nymphing.

  Ed Engle

  Art, Sea, Fishing

  Ed Engle (1991). “Fly Fishing the Tailwaters”, p.65, Stackpole Books

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• The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mother, Art, Father

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• Drink deeply from good books.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Book, Ucla

  John Wooden, Jay Carty (2009). “Coach Wooden One-On-One”, p.43, Revell

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• Make friendship a fine art.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Art, Nba

  John Wooden (2011). “Wooden: A Legacy in Words and Images (EBOOK)”, p.12, McGraw-Hill Professional

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• In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Study, Fine

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1094, Delphi Classics

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• The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

  William Faulkner

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

  George G. Stewart, Robert W. Hamblin, William Faulkner (2009). “Yoknapatawpha, images and voices: a photographic study of Faulkner's County, with passages from classic William Faulkner texts”, Univ of South Carolina Pr

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• In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry, it can be an album cover or a t-shirt or a logo. I like that entertainment has this usefulness - that it's ultimately trying to make a bunch of people feel something, and to think about life and be able to use things that were so simple and direct but potentially have a really powerful effect.

  Andrew W.K.

  Art, Powerful, Simple

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Don't think about making art.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Thinking, Inspire Creativity

  Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol (2003). “Warhol Memoir”

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• I have a Master's Degree in photography as a fine art, and I would call my work primarily conceptual. I don't carry cameras with me wherever I go. I get an idea of a subject matter I want to deal with and I pull out my cameras.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Photography, Art, Inspiration

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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