Paul Gauguin Quotes
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Quotes to Explore
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
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Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
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Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
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So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the elements and what they teach us, and to each other.
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Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.
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Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
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My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.
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Translation is the art of failure.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
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It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.
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I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she's a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices.
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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
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Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit.
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I'd like to die like my old dad, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming like his passengers.
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Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
