Art famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it as an upper-class prerogative.
-- Alfred Kazin -
Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.
-- Alfred Kazin -
Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.
-- Alfred Kinsey -
All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man to man or from generation to generation, at least not permanently. It is the perception, the knowledge and understanding of them, their ideas in the Platonic sense, that are passed along. Everything social can have existence only through mentality.
-- Alfred L. Kroeber -
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
So I find every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet, The field, the chamber, and the street, For all is dark where thou art not
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture.
-- Alfred Lunt -
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience...
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It justifies itself both by its immediate enjoyment, and also by its discipline of the inmost being. Its discipline is not distinct from enjoyment but by reason of it. It transforms the soul into the permanent realization of values extending beyond its former self.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Hanns Heinz Ewers tells a short story of a boy who was so unnatural of disposition as to take a special delight in people sick with elephantiasis. Our "European intellectuality" finds itself in an identical condition today which, through Jewish pens, worships the Kokoschka, Chagalls and Pechsteins as the leaders of the Art of the future. Features of degeneracy are already apparent, as, for instance, with Schwalbach, who dares representing Jesus as flat footed and bow legged.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I experienced an intense longing for Europe, for its vital tradition of music, theatre, art, craftsmanship... I felt bewildered and lonely. How was I to use myself?
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
Before the people at large, and for that matter, the artists themselves, understand what photography really means, as I understand that term, it is essential for them to be taught the real meaning of art.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
The scene fascinated me: a round straw hat; the funnel leaning left, the stairway leaning right; the white drawbridge, its railings made of chain; white suspenders crossed on the back of a man below; circular iron machinery; a mast that cut into the sky, completing a triangle.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all of oneself, and that becomes 'art' in time.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
There are many schools of painting. Why should there not be many schools of photographic art? There is hardly a right and a wrong in these matters, but there is truth, and that should form the basis of all works of art.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources.... They enlarge his capacity for self-knowledge and expand his opportunities for self-improvement.... They are the wellsprings of a free society.
-- Alfred Whitney Griswold -
You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.
-- Alfredo Kraus -
In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's truth or of light love's art, Only the song of a secret bird.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
She knows not loves that kissed her She knows not where. Art thou the ghost, my sister, White sister there, Am I the ghost, who knows? My hand, a fallen rose, Lies snow-white on white snows, and takes no care.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes,And fresh from the kisses of death,Of langours rekindled and rallied, Of barren delights and unclean,Things monstrous and fruitless, a pallidAnd poisonous queen.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
When I was taking art history I was always angry that we would skip certain chapters because "it wasn't important." Like, "Let's skip over the Japanese. Let's just get to Giotto, because that's where everything begins." It's like, no. Everything is relevant to me.
-- Ali Banisadr -
Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.
-- Ali Smith -
Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?
-- Ali Smith -
Sex is perhaps like culture - a luxury that only becomes an art after generations of leisurely acquaintance. Why we scarcely approach either as individuals - it's mass propulsion still!
-- Alice B. Toklas -
Wenn jemand sich in Inkarnation befindet, bietet ihm dieser Körper das Problem, das er erlernen muss oder (wenn die Evolution fortgeschritten ist) bietet den Träger, der sich für die Art der jeweiligen Aufgabe am besten eignet. Ein orientalischer Körpertyp hat eine gewisse Anzahl von Fähigkeiten, und ein abendländischer Körpertyp weist andere und, wenn ich so sagen darf, ebenso gute Eignungen auf.
-- Alice Bailey -
My art and my self-expression in any form has always been an attempt towards sincerity, honesty, and empathy for others. For a multitude of reasons both professional and personal I no longer feel that this is possible within [Crystal Castles]. Although this is the end of the band, I hope my fans will embrace me as a solo artist in the same way they have embraced Crystal Castles.
-- Alice Glass -
Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.
-- Alice Hoffman -
Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.
-- Alice Meynell -
The art of not experiencing feelings. A child can experience her feelings only when there is somebody there who accepts her fully, understands her, and supports her. If that person is missing, if the child must risk losing the mother's love of her substitute in order to feel, then she will repress emotions.
-- Alice Miller -
I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.
-- Alice Munro -
I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same.
-- Alice Munro -
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.
-- Alice Neel -
Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.
-- Alice Neel -
I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is overreaction to life. I love these early drawings; they show my innocent beginnings in a small town. Life is a sentence -- you live it out. Maybe these portraits jump out at you too much. People like things that conform.
-- Alice Neel -
Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.
-- Alice Neel -
I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials.
-- Alice Neel -
When I was in my studio I didn't give a damn what sex I was... I thought art is art.
-- Alice Neel -
No one on the street thought anything of the downtown girl dressed in black who had paused in the middle of midtown foot traffic. In her art student camouflage she could walk the entire length of Manhattan and, if not blend in, be classified and therefore ignored.
-- Alice Sebold -
If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
-- Alice Walker -
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
-- Alice Walker -
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
-- Alice Walker -
There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa.
-- Alice Walton -
I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three Bs: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities.
-- Alice Walton -
No longer is drinking an art with Americans; once they drank for the taste, but now they drink only for the effect. The more quick and fatal the liquor, the better they like it. They are either on the wagon or else.
-- Alice-Leone Moats -
A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything you do in the arts enriches you.
-- Alicia Alonso -
This new form of dialogue that is bringing us to the art to which I have dedicated my life, is rooted in the deepest and most beautiful part of being human.
-- Alicia Alonso -
I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.
-- Alicia Keys -
Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation
-- Alija Izetbegovic -
in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.
-- Alison Lurie -
I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.
-- Alistair Maclean -
Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.
-- Alla Nazimova -
It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by technique alone and to move an audience is the role of dance as an art.
-- Alla Osipenko -
Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art....
-- Allan Bloom -
Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out of the degrading interpretation of man in modern natural and political science.
-- Allan Bloom -
Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it.
-- Allan Kaprow -
This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.
-- Allan Kaprow -
I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.
-- Allan Kaprow -
The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.
-- Allan Kaprow -
Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things which will be discovered by the present generation of artists...
-- Allan Kaprow -
A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.
-- Allan Kaprow -
If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints.
-- Allan Nevins -
I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.
-- Allen Carr -
Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
-- Allen Ginsberg -
Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression and the true art.
-- Allen Ginsberg -
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
-- Allen Ginsberg -
Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse.
-- Allen Ginsberg -
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
-- Allen Tate -
There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.
-- Allen Tate -
You can choose to be mad in a negative way where it fuels you to do mean, hateful things, or you can let your madness fuel your art and channel it in a positive way.
-- Allie Gonino -
So worried was I that people would see through the painting into my soul - and guess at secret Alison stuff - that I scraped the paint off the canvas. It was too risky to expose what everyone hides...And yet isn't that the job of the artist? Next step is to take the risk - to work more deeply. To expose that which cannot be expressed any other way. That is art. Scary and exciting.
-- Allison Mackie -
Macey couldn't decide whether to be intrigued that Hale was walking around with a state-of-the-art covert communications device or be jealous because she'd been caught without one of her own.
-- Ally Carter -
The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing itâ€
-- Alma Gluck -
The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.
-- Alma Gluck -
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
-- Alma Gluck -
Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art.
-- Alma Gluck -
Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.
-- Aloe Blacc -
Just as experience dictates to the ballet teacher the length of time necessary to train his students, so the horse, too, needs time to mature into a great four legged dancer. This fact cannot be obliterated by seeming successes that supposedly prove the opposite. For, even if someone should succeed in training a horse to high school level by the age of eight, this individual occurrence cannot shake the foundations of the classical art of riding, if this dressage horse is completely unsound and unusable by the age of ten.
-- Alois Podhajsky -
The objective of the Classical Art of Riding is to train the horse not only to be brilliant in the movements and the exercises of the High School but also to be quiet, supple and obedient and by his smooth movements to make riding a true pleasure
-- Alois Podhajsky -
Nature can exist without Art, but Art can never exist without Nature.
-- Alois Podhajsky -
Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have
-- Alonzo King -
The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.
-- Alonzo King -
The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would his dope... Like a lover with their love.
-- Alonzo King -
An artist should have more than two eyes.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.
-- Alphonse Karr -
Art exists only to communicate a spiritual message
-- Alphonse Mucha -
Lord, if Thou knowest that I shall find, on leaving the house, even through obedience, an occasion of offending Thee, I conjure Thee to take away my life here, where Thou are really present, for Thou solely art my life, and I prefer a thousand deaths to causing Thee the slightest displeasure.
-- Alphonsus Rodriguez -
No matter how much creativity goes into it, cooking is an art. Or perhaps I should say a craft. It abides by absolute rules, physics, chemistry, etc. and that means that unless you understand the science you cannot reach the art. We're not talking about painting here. Cooking's more like engineering. I happen to think that there is great beauty in great engineering.
-- Alton Brown -
Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste, brotherhood and all the subtleties that we all know...
-- Alton Tobey
