Quotes and Sayings About Art
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You've got to be able to pay your bills, otherwise you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world inside my head has always been a far richer place than the world outside it. I suppose that a lot of my art and writing are meant to bring the two together.
-- Alan Moore -
There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at the very earliest descriptions of magic. Magic in its earliest form is often referred to as “the artâ€. I believe this is completely literal. I believe that magic is art and that art, whether it be writing, music, sculpture, or any other form is literally magic.
-- Alan Moore -
To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself.
-- Alan Moore -
For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.
-- Alan Moore -
I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
-- Alan Parker -
If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
-- Alan Rickman -
I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.
-- Alan Rickman -
Main thing is to publish. Blog, tweet, write, photograph, tweet, video, code, play around with data - or a combination of all of the above. a) it will keep your journalistic ‘muscle’ in practice. b) if you’re any good, you’ll get noticed. And bear in mind you can do these things at other places than conventional news organisations. Many businesses, NGOs, arts organisations, public bodies, universities, etc are now publishers of extremely high quality stuff. Good places to practise your craft before moving on
-- Alan Rusbridger -
The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.
-- Alan Sillitoe -
There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random element.' Each machine should be supplied with a tape bearing a random series of figures, e.g., 0 and 1 in equal quantities, and this series of figures should be used in the choices made by the machine. This would result in the behaviour of the machine not being by any means completely determined by the experiences to which it was subjected, and would have some valuable uses when one was experimenting with it.
-- Alan Turing -
The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art
-- Alan Villiers -
Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.
-- Alan Watts -
We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.
-- Alan Watts -
The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
-- Alan Watts -
The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.
-- Alan Watts -
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
-- Alan Watts -
The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.
-- Alan Watts -
I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.
-- Alanis Morissette -
I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?
-- Alanis Morissette -
The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple of years to even understand how my art form I could process any of this. When the world changed, eliciting laughter with subjects that were funny to me before 9/11 just didnt seem good enough.
-- Albert Brooks -
Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in galleries than can surgery be learned by casual visits to a hospital.
-- Albert C. Barnes -
Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man.
-- Albert C. Barnes -
The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts
-- Albert C. Barnes -
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution
-- Albert C. Barnes -
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
-- Albert Camus -
It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.
-- Albert Camus -
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
-- Albert Camus -
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
-- Albert Camus -
...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
-- Albert Camus
