Art Quotes
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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.
James Joyce -
I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.
Len Wein
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Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.
Jerry Saltz -
I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunately now the work lives in a weird context.
M.I.A. -
I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.
Paul Daniels -
I find that my greatest difficulty and the really most painful and difficult part of my work is draining and ridding my mind of that burden of meanings which I've absorbed through the culture-things that seem to have something to do with art but don't have anything to do with art at all.
Carl Andre -
I was taught that you can't be a healthy individual without art, music, or nature in your life. All my art is tied into inner cultural experience. It has to do with music or ceremonies or nature, even the funny ones.
Michael Horse -
No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution, strenuous diligence, and steady perseverance. Yet we expect to be Christians without labour, study, or inquiry.
William Wilberforce
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Space is the breath of art.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia -
If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art no better than a fly. Conquer thy heart that thou mayest become somebody.
Aziz Ansari -
Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.
Joyce Carol Oates -
Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think... of art as a situation of comfort.
Willem de Kooning -
I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist.
Jandy Nelson
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The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.
John Wesley Powell -
For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.
Oliver Goldsmith -
The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.
David Cronenberg -
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
Lynda Barry -
I need art around me always.
Kelly Wearstler -
I loved music and art, combining the two seemed like a natural match.
Arik Roper
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For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art.
M. C. Escher -
In every art form, nothing exists in a bubble. It exists because of what came before it. A lot of bricks were laid. I think if it weren't for 'The Purge,' 'Get Out' wouldn't resonate as a mainstream movie. You push on the taste of the audience, in a way, get them used to something, and then you keep pushing on it.
Jason Blum -
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.
Leonard Baskin -
Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.
Virginia Woolf