artist quotes?
Cheute19
i was wondering if anyone happened to have any good quotes on artists or art.
if you do, please e-mail me or reply to this post.
thanx a lot in advance!
Rick the Mouseherder
which afflicts amateurs.
--G. K. Chesterton
Any form of art is a form of power, it has
impact, it can affect change--it can not only
move us, it makes us move.--Ossie Davis
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Lionel Trilling
"In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can
inspire."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
- Aristotle
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things
American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic,
tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
--Shelley Winters
Some people believe America is rich enough for hunger but too poor for art.
--Carl Andre
Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists
know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very
exceptionally found among artists.
--Albert Camus (1913–60)
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the
works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely
applies the rules which others have detected.
--Henry David Thoreau (1817–62)
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is
tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of
his most elevated and critical hour.
--Henry David Thoreau (1817–62)
It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the
first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an
indecent mind in a decent body--George Jean Nathan
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
—Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way
that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.
--Gustave Flaubert
The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis
of and extension of sensations.
--Susan Sontag (1933-____)
No form of art goes beyond ordinary
consciousness as film does, straight
to our emotions, deep into the twilight
room of the soul. A little twitch in our
optic nerve, a shock effect: twenty-four
illuminated frames a second, darkness
in between, the optic nerve incapable
of registering darkness.
-- Ingmar Bergman, LATERNA MAGICA.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice;
journalism what will be grasped at once.
---Cyril Conelly, Enemies of Promise 1938
Vision: the art of seeing things invisible. -
-Jonathan Swift
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art
that he will work at it come hell or high water.
--Stendhal (1783-1842)
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Graham J Weeks
has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. -- Jackson
Pollock (1912-1956)
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture
every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense
of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. --Goethe
(1749-1832)
Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn
to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his
pet pigeon -- and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an
extension of his own body.
Mildred & Victor Goertzel
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows
up. -- Pablo Picasso
Abstract art? A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the
utterly bewildered.-- Al Capp
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. G. K. Chesterton
(1874-1936) A: "Orthodoxy," 1908.
Painting consumes labour not disproportionate to its effect; but a fellow will
hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly
resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would
not value the finest head cut upon a carrot. Samuel Johnson (Boswell: Life of
Johnson)
I am sick of shit masquerading as art. --Brian Sewell on The Turner Prize,
1998, Evening Standard
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by
it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the
way. --Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) "Artists in Quotation," by Donna Ward La
Cour, 1989.
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many objects such as
wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. --
Tom Stoppard (1937-____) "Artist Descending a Staircase."
The learned understand the theory of art, the unlearned its pleasure. --
Quintilian (35-90 A.D.) De Institutione Oratoria--
Graham J Weeks
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Graham J Weeks wrote:
> I am sick of shit masquerading as art. --Brian Sewell on The Turner Prize,
> 1998, Evening Standard
THE PERFUME CONCERT
THE Loveliest man gave us a talk the other
evening -- our Little Group of Serious
Thinkers, you know -- on the Art of the
Future.
And what do you think it is to be? You'd never
guess! Never!
The entertainment of the future will be a
Perfume concert!
Every scent, if you get what I mean, corresponds
to some color, and ever color corresponds to some
sound, and every sound corresponds to some
emotion.
And the truly esthetic person -- the one who is
Sensitized, if you get what I mean -- will hear a
tone on the violin, and see a color, and think
passionately of the One he Loves, all at the same
time, just through smelling a Rose.
Only, of course, it must be the RIGHT KIND of a rose.
Papa -- poor der Papa is so coarse and crude
sometimes in his attempts to be witty -- Papa says it
would be a fine idea to lead the man who talked to
us into a boiled cabbage foundry and then watch
him die of the noise. Papa is not Sensitized; he
doesn't understand that the esthete really WOULD die --
Papa resists the vibrations of the esthetic environment
with which I have striven to surround him,
if you get what I mean.
--Don Marquis, _Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers_
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Daniel P. B. Smith
email: dpbs...@bellatlantic.net
"Lifetime forwarding" email address: dpbs...@mit.alum.edu
The Sanity Inspector
--Tom Wolfe's name for abstract sculpture in public places.
--
bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
--The Jam
Karen Weber
pleasure in having contact with works of art. They
furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity such
as I cannot derive from other realms.
Albert Einstein
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make
the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw
Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness
and alacrity; but art and nature have stores
inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment
produces something new to him who has quickened
his faculties by diligent observation.
Samuel Johnson
All the performances of human art, at which we look
with praise or wonder, are instances of the
resistless force of perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
Beauty is an end in itself, not a means to some
other end.
James Ogilvy
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing,
to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough
for one man's life.
T.S. Eliot
You agree--I'm sure you agree, that beauty is the
only thing worth living for.
Agatha Christie
It is the function of art to renew our perception.
What we are familiar with we cease to see. The
writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by
magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Anais Nin
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature
or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves,
with the speed of lightning. That is,... all that is
beautiful and sublime and the world takes part in the
beauty of what one loves, and this unexpected
glimpse of happiness immediately fills the eyes with
tears. This is how love of the beautiful and love give
each other life.
Stendhal
A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
It's loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness.
John Keats
Beauty passes, but perfection remains with us.
Turkish proverb
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