Brassaï Quotes

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

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• I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Work
  • Art
  • Why

• I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Different
  • Why
  • Remember

• Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Art
  • Always
  • Blame

• To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Up
  • Important
  • Art

• There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Knowledge
  • Desire
  • Purpose

• After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Art
  • Movie
  • Thought

• We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.

  

  Walter Crane
  • People
  • Art
  • Free

• To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Men
  • Art
  • Small

• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Art
  • Science

• Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • People
  • Up
  • Art

• The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Art
  • Business

• In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Work
  • Art
  • Language

• The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important art form in American culture has a place to really exhibit itself and dedicated to its own particular conditions of performance.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Time
  • Important
  • Art

• The hardest part of doing anything creatively is just getting up and doing.  Once I get out of bed and get into my art room, I start painting.  I'm there.  And I'm doing it.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Up
  • Art
  • Painting

• Today, I am no longer concerned with photography as an art form. I believe it is potentially the best medium for explaining man to himself and his fellow man.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Today

• We must not approach the observance and enforcement of this law in a vengeful spirit. Its purpose is not to punish. Its purpose is not to divide, but to end divisions - divisions which have all lasted too long. Its purpose is national, not regional.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Long
  • Law
  • Purpose

• My purpose, which I finally found thanks to social media, is helping all of these people find their purpose.

  

  Jerome Jarre
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Thanks

• children's art is completely opposed to what interests me, because it's an effort to assimilate culture..

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Children
  • Art
  • Culture

• When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the galleries of Pacific sunsets, full moon rises on the ocean, the clouds from an airplane, autumn forests in Raleigh, first fallen snows.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Work
  • Art
  • Die

• Thy beauty shall no more be found; Nor, in thy marble vault shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust.The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Long
  • Song
  • Honor

• GPL version 3 was not a good 'here we give you version 2' and then we try to sneak in this new rules and try force everyone to upgrade; that was the part I disliked. The FSF did really sneaky stuff, downright immoral in my opinion.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Good
  • Opinion

• The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

  

  Brassaï
  • Art
  • Purpose
  • Awareness