Quotes and Sayings About Art
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What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
-- Adam Braun -
I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
-- Adam Carolla -
That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.
-- Adam Duritz -
I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point around fifteen or sixteen, I had a sense that photography could provide a bridge from the world of science to the world of art, or image. Photography was a means of crossing into a new place I didn't know.
-- Adam Fuss -
For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
-- Adam Gopnik -
Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
-- Adam Gopnik -
Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.
-- Adam Gopnik -
Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
-- Adam Gopnik -
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
-- Adam Gopnik -
I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
-- Adam Levine -
The motion picture is the people's Art.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns -
When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
-- Adelbert von Chamisso -
That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.
-- Adepero Oduye -
The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The art of leadership . . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. . . . The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belong to one category.
-- Adolf Hitler -
[Propaganda] must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect... The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention and thence to the heart of the broad masses.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
-- Adolf Loos -
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
-- Adolf Loos -
Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.
-- Adolf Loos -
If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.
-- Adolf Loos -
All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.
-- Adolf Loos -
The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
-- Adolf Loos -
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
-- Adolf Loos -
Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.
-- Adolphe Quetelet -
Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
You didn't have to wash it as often and it hid the blood stains better!
-- Adriano Directo Emperado -
Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.
-- Adrienne Monnier -
One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
-- Adrienne Rich
