Sylvia Ashton-Warner (Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner) Quotes

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

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• Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • World
  • Art
  • Soul

• Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Unnecessary

• The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Art
  • Business

• As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Trying
  • Art
  • High

• As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Art
  • Rock

• It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Art
  • Control

• Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Hand

• Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Art
  • War
  • Trump

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

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Art
  • Anime
  • Ambiguous

• Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art
  • Everything
  • Else

• My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Art
  • Father

• I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Art
  • Girl

• We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or Thai.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Art
  • Chinese
  • Japanese

• I'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada, the guy who did the album art. I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Time
  • Art
  • Principles

• Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Art
  • Simple
  • Dedication

• Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Perfection
  • Judged

• Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer but never judge it.

  

  Nick Bantock
  • Art
  • Dark
  • Judging

• I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Me

• Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • People
  • Workplace

• Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Prophet
  • Carpe

• There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

  

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner
  • Art
  • Crash
  • Perish