- Nov 07, 2020
Art Quotes
Why people make it, and who it's for.
This set of "art" quotes leans toward purpose — one artist frames their work as a way to elevate others, while another argues that art shapes who a person becomes. For quotes on standing out through craft, see Great quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is most happy when he is most perfect, and he is most perfect when all his faculties are proportionately and harmoniously developed. Thus developed, nature and art and society supply him with a thousand sources of enjoyment.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In everyday life, you can tell the same joke thrice and, thrice getting a laugh, become the life of the party. In art, though, this sort of conduct is called 'cliche.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
- Line
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
- History
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.
- Nov 07, 2020
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never ask a sculptor or painter, 'Go paint this because you'll get paid more,' you know what I mean?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020