Fine Arts Quotes - Page 6

• In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Communication, Mean

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1896.

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• I work in the field of art, and you know how during a period of Marxist ideology, fewer people are inclined to believe in the power of the culture as a whole: they believe in the revolutionary potential of economics, class struggle theory.. ..Therefore it's time to show that art means the power of creativity, and it's time to define art in a larger way, to include science and religion too..(1973

  Joseph Beuys

  Art, Believe, Struggle

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• I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and the taste and inclination toward the fine arts and other spiritual values.

  Luis Barragan

  Spiritual, Art, Believe

  "Contemporary Architects". Book by Muriel Emanuel and Dennis Sharp, 1980.

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• Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint is a finely tuned antenna, reacting to very unnoticed movement of the painter's hand, fixing the faintest shadow of a thought in color and texture.

  James Elkins

  Art, Hands, Color

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.193, Routledge

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• The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been given to them or withdrawn, but it will be found that there has often been more money lavished on them in their worst periods than in their best, and that the highest honours have frequently been bestowed on artists whose names are scarcely now known.

  John Constable

  Art, Names, First Impression

  John Constable (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)”, p.599, Delphi Classics

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• I had a Masters of Fine Arts, but so did thousands of other graduates every year, and we were all competing for the same jobs. I realistically didn't expect to become a teacher, and after two or three years, I accepted defeat.

  Kurt Wagner

  Teacher, Art, Jobs

  "Lambchop". Interview With Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. October 7, 2008.

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• It's not movies and it's not "fine art." The beauty of a comic is that it's clear, direct communication. My work is getting simpler and more cartoony because I'm much more interested in communication now than in any illustrative value.

  Frank Miller

  Art, Communication, Comic

  "Eisner/Miller". Book by Frank Miller and Will Eisner, 2005.

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• Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the formal aspects of the Indo-Persian miniature-painting genre has often been at the core of my practice.

  Shahzia Sikander

  Art, Illustration, Practice

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• Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko... all believed in the social role of art... Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity with activity. Art with engineering; music with painting; poetry with design; fine art with propaganda; photographs with typography; diagrams with action; the studio with the street.

  John Berger

  Art, Doors, Engineering

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• Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are simply engaged in the fine art of conciliating, balancing and interpreting the forces and factions of public opinion, an art essential to keeping our nation united and enabling our Government to function.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Government, Today

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• The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Fall, Mad

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.273

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• Every thought which enters the mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform, makes its impression upon the inmost fiber of our being and the result of these impressions is our character. The study of books, of music, or of the fine arts is not essential to a lofty character. It rests with the worker whether a rude piece of marble shall be squared into a horse-block or carved into an Apollo, a Psyche, or a Venus di Milo. It is yours, if you choose, to develop a spiritual form more beautiful than any of these, instinct with immortal life, refulgent with all the glory of character.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Horse

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.481, e-artnow

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• I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.

  James Spader

  Art, Symphony, Museums

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.

  PJ Harvey

  Art, School, Degrees

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• The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn.

  Nobu Matsuhisa

  Art, Sushi, Watches

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• A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

  Louis Nizer

  Art, Renewal, Fine

  Louis Nizer (1963). “Between you and me”

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• I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Art, Architecture, Painting

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and then to combine this with a conceptual art practice. But thinking back, that was the wrong decision [laughs]. Developing a low-quality aesthetic is a sign of serious fine art-I still see this.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Art, Thinking

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• As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  Cutting, Artist, Technique

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.

  Buck Brannaman

  Art, Integrity, Treats

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting.

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel

  Art, Portraits, Portraiture

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• Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.

  Ordway Tead

  Art, Communication, Matter

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• As a comic book artist, once you become a master, you end up a slave. In fine art you're always free... since I couldn't make it at Marvel, I made my life a carnival.

  Mark Kostabi

  Art, Book, Slave

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• And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.

  Pete Seeger

  Art, Pops, Fine

  "Show 1 - Play A Simple Melody: American pop music in the early fifties, Part 1". Interview on radio documentary series "Pop Chronicles", digital.library.unt.edu. February 14, 1968.

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• And the art was in every corner and wall... a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich in detail, painted by a student of the Fine Arts Academy of Chicago named Santiago Martinez; a name to remember.

  Santiago Martinez Delgado

  Art, Wall, Names

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