Tuesday, 26 March 2019

Art - Quotes

Keep doing what you like to do. That's all [art] is. - Cory Arcangel

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. - Oscar Wilde

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. - Oscar Wilde

No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist. - Unknown

One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless. - Donald Barthelme

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. - Jackson Pollock

Painting is silent poetry. - Plutarch

Performance art is about joy, about making something that’s so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can’t put into worlds. - Laurie Anderson

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? - Aldous Huxley

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. - Tom Stoppard

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again. - William Faulkner

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. - Ursula LeGuin

The artist does not really create; he discovers. - Lyman Abbott

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture. - Lucius Seneca

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web. - Pablo Picasso

That art is best which suggests most. - Austin O’Malley

The artist is justified by his art. - Lewis Foreman Day

The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels. - E. E. Cummings

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