Chairil Anwar Quotes

In art, vitality is the chaotic initial state; beauty is the cosmic final state.

Chairil Anwar

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• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Sun
  • Yellow

• In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Education
  • Materialism

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

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

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Education

• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Pleasure

• 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.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Art

• Photographing a cake can be art.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Art
  • Cake
  • Photographing

• Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Creativity

• The art of prose governed by syncopated thinking; for thoughts curdle in the heart if not expressed. An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Art

• I think art doesn't have to be created in a period of misery, but it certainly helps.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Art
  • Period

• Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.

  

  Patti Smith
  • People
  • Art
  • Hand

• Art is the only thing that can save me from my opinions about the world. I tend to get very worked up about what I see going on, and I feel, you know, impotent to make the kind of changes and the kind of difference that I would like to make.

  

  David Dobkin
  • Up
  • World
  • Art

• I got into music, I was in a band, I was at art school. I was quite trendy, although I'd hate to meet myself. The over-preening, the pretentiousness, the arrogance of youth! I think, 'Oh, that guy was so full of himself.'

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.

  

  Eli Broad
  • Important
  • Family
  • Art

• Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

  

  Paul Valery
  • People
  • Art
  • Business

• An art project, a hands-on science experiment, or a special field trip can transcend textbooks and flash cards. No one knows this better than those teaching students with autism.

  

  Charles Best
  • Art
  • Science
  • Autism

• Look at someone like Kanye West - ego is the death of a lot of art. To believe in yourself that much is to stop being an artist.

  

  Jamie Hewlett Gorillaz
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Death

• I think it's what art should do: make you feel less alone - either in the quest for truth or in dealing with any pain you have.

  

  Brendan Gleeson
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Alone

• History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • History
  • You
  • Attention

• If you have an Ina Garten-level roasted-chicken recipe, it's a game changer. I bring that to dinner parties and make a lot of friends.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • Friends
  • Game

• It's not like I try to be different, but every single person is unique, and every single person has special things to offer, and it's about embracing it and not being afraid of the fact that maybe you're different or quirky, but it's okay to be different, and it can be a wonderful thing.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Different
  • Single
  • Unique

• The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Earth
  • Sides
  • Round

• Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • War
  • Force
  • Cardinal Virtues

• In art, vitality is the chaotic initial state; beauty is the cosmic final state.

  

  Chairil Anwar
  • Art
  • Finals
  • Cosmic