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  • You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

    Art   Eras   Study  
  • The main difference between the art of the actor and all other arts is that every other [non-performing] artist may create whenever he is in the mood of inspiration. But the artist of the stage must be the master of his own inspiration, and must know how to call it forth at the hour announced on the posters of the theatre. This is the chief secret of our art.

  • My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation.

    Art   Soul   Teeth  
    New York Arts Magazine, December 2008.
  • Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

    Art   Grace   World  
  • Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.

    Art   Writing   Infinite  
  • Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

    Beauty   Art   Principles  
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood
  • Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.

  • The kickboxing and the martial arts is so fun. It's like anything in school. You're not going to retain information unless you're interested in it.

    Art   Fun   School  
    Source: collider.com
  • It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.

  • Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.75
  • Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.

    Art   Expression   Skills  
    "Enforced Disappearance". W Magazine, November 2011.
  • Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.

    Art   Needs   World  
    Louise Bourgeois, Donald Burton Kuspit (1988). “Bourgeois”, Vintage
  • "Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know his world and, so far as his art is concerned, any kind of battering from his world is better than his own self-indulgent brooding.

    Art   Writing   Mean  
  • I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art is more concerned with epistemology than ethics or politics or even aesthetics.

    Art   Creating   Ethics  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.

    Art   Men   Wish  
    Arthur Symons, Karl E. Beckson (1989). “Arthur Symons, selected letters, 1880-1935”, Univ of Iowa Pr
  • Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.

    Art   Real   Issues  
  • If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

    Art   Creative   Would Be  
    Ray Spangenburg, Kit Moser, Edward Hopper, Diane Moser (2002). “Edward Hopper: The Life of an Artist”, Enslow Pub Incorporated
  • A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.

  • Art is... a reflection of a greater divine creation. There really is no separation.

    "Secular, Sacred, or Both?" by Kate Bowman, www.christianitytoday.com. February 14, 2005.
  • I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

    Art   Needs   Critics  
  • Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.

    Art   Mistake   Believe  
    Jean Anouilh, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Kitty Black (1961). “The rehearsal: a play in three acts”
  • Art is the accomplice of love.

    Remy de Gourmont (1921). “Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas”
  • When you get questions that annoy you the art is answering them differently. If you're bored with it, then everyone will be bored with it.

    Art   Bored   Annoying  
    "Don Hertzfeldt’s Animated Short “It’s Such A Beautiful Day” Screens At IFC". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.
  • There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.

    Art   Yellow   Doe  
    "Prospectus et tous écrits suivants", Vol. II, by Jean Dubuffet, Gallimard, Paris, (p. 206), 1967.
  • Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.

    Art   Taken   Names  
  • Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

    Dream   Art   Society  
    Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”
  • Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

  • Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

    Art   Military   Reading  
    Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”
  • In Afghanistan I was doing street art because it was more open, but when I had a show, only men would come. I said, I'm an artist not only for men, but for women too. So that's why I like graffiti.

    Art   Men   Graffiti  
    "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.
  • I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.

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