Art Is Quotes (page 24)

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• art
• science
• personality

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality. Naguib Mahfouz

• art
• excuses
• useless

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. Oscar Wilde

• art
• science
• saying

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36) Jonathan Kellerman

• work
• thoughts
• emotional

Thought and plot are not so important as some would make them out to be. The object of any work of art is the transference of emotion; talent is the gift of conveying that emotion James Joyce

• art
• saying
• dark

I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime. Jeanette Winterson

• attitude
• great
• art

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentratio? tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils Francis Bacon

• surprise
• great
• book

The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual;" and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come more or less as a shocking surprise. Vladimir Nabokov

• art
• work
• never

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned. E. M. Forster

• art
• thoughts
• empty

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone. Vincent Van Gogh

• art
• bad
• creepy

Bad art is always basically creepy; that is its first and most obvious identifying sign John Gardner

• life
• art
• fun

Life is serious but art is fun! John Irving

• art
• work
• other

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself. Stephen Sondheim

• power
• appearance
• empty

The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog, one with superior genes. Small male frogs—it's been documented—discover if they position themselves in empty drainpipes, the pipe acts as a voice amplifier and the small frog appears much larger than it really is." So?" So that's what art is for the artist, an empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at... Margaret Atwood

• evening
• bad
• serious

The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration. George Orwell

• destiny
• manly
• art

I have treated many artists. There are among them many neurotics, so many that one finally comes to believe that one cannot be an artist without being neurotic. Again I found in them that inner conflict which is characteristic of modern man: the conflict between a right intuition (namely, that their vocation has fundamental importance for the destiny of humanity) and a false idea (namely, that art is superfluous luxury). Paul Tournier