Rudolf Arnheim Quotes

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Rudolf Arnheim

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• Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

  

  Saint Augustine
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• 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
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• 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
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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.

  

  Galileo Galilei
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• You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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• Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
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  • Anime
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• Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Education

• After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but I wasn't really enjoying it very much, so I decided to do something creative, and in 2009, I began blogging.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • School
  • Art
  • Design

• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Great
  • Art
  • Inspired

• There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black art' was and that it should embrace black history and black culture. There were all these rules - I was shocked, when I found it in a book, that it even existed, that it would demarcate these artists.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Art
  • Book
  • History

• I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • Art
  • Chess

• I'm either offered window-dressing parts in large movies or little art films no one ever sees. People think the movies I end up doing are my real choices. I do the best things I'm offered.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • World
  • Art
  • She

• Take an exhibit, in the days when we saw the Pop art - Andy Warhol and all that - tomato soup cans, etc., and coming home, you saw everything like A. Warhol.

  

  Corita Kent
  • Art
  • Home

• Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.

  

  Joe Haldeman
  • Art
  • Political

• I like a lot of modern art. I like Chuck Close a lot. It doesn't necessarily directly influence the work I draw on the page.

  

  Jim Lee
  • Work
  • Art

• In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with - by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography.

  

  Donnie Yen
  • Art
  • Team
  • Action

• What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

  

  David Hockney
  • People
  • Trying
  • Art

• It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • People
  • Always
  • Israel

• When I say I can see through clothes, sometimes I try to use it as an X-ray vision to look into the dancer and see who this dancer is right now, at this exact moment in time. I live inside them in a way.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Time
  • Live
  • Vision

• Many photographers are apt to confuse color with noise, and to congratulate themselves when they have almost blown you down with screeching hues alone-a bebop of electric blues, furious reds, and poison greens.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Alone
  • Color
  • Noise

• If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • May
  • Job

• Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Art
  • Language
  • Painter