Life Celebration Quotes
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
Agnes Martin
There are two kinds of artists in this world those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.
Anna Katharine Green
There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.
Anna Quindlen
I paint with shapes.
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
Alexander Calder
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Alice Walker
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
Alvar Aalto
Painting:
The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
Photograph:
a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
Logic:
The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Eloquence:
The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
Ambrose Bierce
Anaïs Nin
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Andre Gide
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
Andre Malraux
There is nothing new in art except talent.
Anton Chekhov
Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.
Billy Idol
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
Billy Joel
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.
Blaise Pascal
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
Boris Pasternak
Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
Brad Holland
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis
Camille Paglia
Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.
It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.
Catherine Deneuve
Charles Baudelaire
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.
What is art? Prostitution.
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
Claude Debussy
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
Claude Monet
A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.
Clive Bell
I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.
Conrad Hall
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie
I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
Damien Hirst
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
Dante Alighieri
It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.
David Byrne
The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?
David Foster Wallace
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
David Herbert Lawrence
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?
David Hockney
The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.
Doris Humphrey
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
Dorothea Lange
Painting is very easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas
I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
Eddie Vedder
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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
Edith Wharton
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Edmund Burke
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
Edward Hopper
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
Elliott Erwitt
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
History develops, art stands still.
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
E.M. Forster
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Federico Fellini
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
Fran Lebowitz
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Francis Bacon
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
Francis Ford Coppola
Art must take reality by surprise.
Francoise Sagan
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
Franz Liszt
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
Franz Marc
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
Frederic Chopin
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
George Santayana
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
Henry Moore
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
Henry Rollins
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Herbie Hancock
Art is the objectification of feeling.
Herman Melville
What is art? Nature concentrated.
Honore de Balzac
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
Ingmar Bergman
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.
Jane Campion
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.
Jerzy Kosinski
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats
The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
John Lasseter
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
John Ruskin
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
John Updike
Khalil Gibran
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Leonardo Da Vinci
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.
Louise Brooks
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
Madeleine L'Engle
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Malcolm De Chazal
Great art picks up where nature ends.
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
Marc Chagall
Margaret Atwood
Any novel is hopeful in that it presupposes a reader. It is, actually, a hopeful act just to write anything, really, because you’re assuming that someone will be around to [read] it.
The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation.
Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.
Martha Beck
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
Art seduces, but does not exploit.
Mason Cooley
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles
Oscar Wilde
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
All art is quite useless.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
Otto Dix
Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
Pablo Picasso
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Paul Cezanne
You say a new era in art is preparing you sensed it coming continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
Paul Gauguin
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
Paul Klee
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
Paul Rand
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
Quintilian
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
Rene Magritte
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Rita Mae Brown
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
Robert Browning
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
Roy Lichtenstein
The history of art is the history of revivals.
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
Samuel Butler
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson
Seneca
All art is but imitation of nature.
Simone de Beauvoir
Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Simonides
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
Stanley Kubrick
I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.
Sydney Pollack
Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
T. S. Eliot
Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'
Temple Grandin
All good art is an indiscretion.
Tennessee Williams
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
Theodor Adorno
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Thomas Hardy
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
Thomas Mann
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
Walter Pater
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
William Blake
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
William Hazlitt
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die.
William Morris
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
William Ralph Inge
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston Churchill
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
Wole Soyinka
