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

• Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.

  

  David Josiah Brewer
  • Time
  • Music
  • Art

• Art is a way of penetrating and going deep into our unconscious and creating amazing worlds - as the Greeks did, if you like, as did Ovid with his stories and his fantasies.

  

  Steven Berkoff
  • Art
  • Creating
  • Unconscious

• The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Actor
  • Successful
  • Lifestyle

• The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • World
  • Artist
  • Painting

• I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in point of fact, in your hands. And for such a power, what a responsibility to God and man!

  

  Jay Alan Sekulow
  • God
  • Power
  • Responsibility

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

  

  Chairil Anwar
  • Art
  • Finals
  • Cosmic