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Art Is Quotes (page 25)

The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an... Robert Hughes
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom; Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys. James Joyce
Ray Bradbury quote: "Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can..."
Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle. Ray Bradbury
John F. Kennedy quote: "We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it..."
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. John F. Kennedy
Mario Vargas Llosa quote: "Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only..."
Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella."(spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa) Mario Vargas Llosa
Hippocrates quote: "The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting,..."
The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult. Hippocrates
Oscar Wilde quote: "The art is nothing without the gift. But the gift is nothing..."
The art is nothing without the gift. But the gift is nothing without work. Oscar Wilde
Ian Mcewan quote: "All that's really required is that anything the state does in..."
All that's really required is that anything the state does in relation to the arts is laid on the table where we can see it. Ian Mcewan
All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda. Upton Sinclair
What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion? whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time. Yevgeny Zamyatin
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new. Robert Morgan
Henry Moore quote: "Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand..."
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing. Henry Moore
Martha Graham quote: "The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside..."
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. Martha Graham
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
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. Northrop Frye

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