Aleksandra Mir Quotes
I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man has been everywhere or affected everything in nature.
Quotes to Explore
-
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
-
Politics is the art of the next best.
-
I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
-
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
-
I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
-
A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
-
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.
-
I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
-
I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
-
As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
-
Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
-
A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
-
In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
-
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
-
Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
-
Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
-
I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.
-
I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.
-
Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that's what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the same photograph, closes things down. It makes it conclusive. It sells a product, and that is its primary function.
-
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the under-workman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces, which come from the hand of the master
-
Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.
-
Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which is a big element to the program.
-
You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me.
-
I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man has been everywhere or affected everything in nature.
