Quotes and Sayings About Art
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Life is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along.
-- Al Hirschfeld -
Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.
-- Al Jourgensen -
She doesn't give you time for questions as she locks up your arms in hers. And you follow till your sense of direction completely disappears.
-- Al Stewart -
Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
-- Al Stewart -
I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!
-- Al Yankovic -
I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
-- Al Yankovic -
Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
-- Al Yankovic -
Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
-- Al Yankovic -
The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact.
-- Ala Bashir -
Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history. The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity. The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
-- Alain Badiou -
The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
-- Alain Badiou -
A good half of the art of living is resilience.
-- Alain de Botton -
Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.
-- Alain de Botton -
In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
-- Alain de Botton -
No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment.
-- Alain de Botton -
Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
-- Alain de Botton -
Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.
-- Alain de Botton -
If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.
-- Alain de Botton -
Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.
-- Alain LeRoy Locke -
The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical opinion - that it is hard to imagine such an art can survive for long without some radical change. To many, the solution seems simple enough: such a change being impossible, the art of the novel is dying.
-- Alain Robbe-Grillet -
Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
Brings [O'Brian's] achievement to a new height....Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much as my own, wanting to know what happens next. That is the real test. Any contemporary novelist should recognize in Patrick O'Brian a Master of the Art.
-- Alan Judd -
Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angels—but alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth.
-- Alan Judd -
Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.†Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in — the one that we think is reality.
-- Alan Kay -
Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable. As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?
-- Alan Kay -
The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections — not only between us and the natural world, but between us and the rest of humanity. Myths show us what we have in common with every other human being, no matter what culture we come from, no matter what century we live in. . .and at the same time, mythic stories and art celebrate our essential differences...
-- Alan Lee -
And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.
-- Alan Lomax
