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Art Is Quotes (page 70)

How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them; no question of mood and feeling; they have just to work at something, and when the evening comes, they have earned their wages, and they are free to rest and enjoy themselves. What an insane thing it is to make literature one's only means of support! When the most trivial accident may at any time prove fatal to one's power of work for weeks or months. No, that is the unpardonable sin!... George Gissing
George Santayana quote: "Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is..."
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. George Santayana
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct. Mark Twain
Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift. Maya Angelou
Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between— Are all in one country, Living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art. Clive Barker
...when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to flee to the margins; it was...this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art. Orhan Pamuk
You love nobody. Is that not true?"Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love as an art? Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. Herman Hesse
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. Ralph Waldo Emerson
But Natural Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art. Charles Darwin
Paul Rand quote: "Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so..."
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. Paul Rand
And here it is that I miss my Watson. By cunning questions and ejaculations of wonder he could elevate my simple art, which is but systematized common sense, into a prodigy. When I tell my own story I have no such aid. Arthur Conan Doyle
As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure feeling. And you know all day sitting at work, eating, walking, etc., you have hundreds of feelings that can't be put into words. And that is why I think that in a sense music is the highest of the arts, because it really begins where the others leave off. C. S. Lewis
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "If sex is the sermon made of art, love is the lady of that tower."
If sex is the sermon made of art, love is the lady of that tower. Vladimir Nabokov
Brendan Gill quote: "Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at..."
Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts. Brendan Gill
The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page, resembles our technique of living day by day--a way of relating. Joyce Carol Oates

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