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Artful Quotes (page 124)

Franz Kafka quote: "There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring:..."
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. Franz Kafka
It is a great error to be superior to others....It is such pride as this that makes a man appear a fool, makes him abused by others, and invites disaster. A man who is truly versed in any art will of his own accord be clearly aware of his own deficiency; and therefore, his ambition being never satisfied, he ends by never being proud. Yoshida Kenko
I shall call modern that art which ... presents the fact that the unpresentable exists. To make visible that there is something which can be conceived and which can neither be seen nor made visible. Jean-Francois Lyotard
William Shakespeare quote: "More matter with less art."
More matter with less art. William Shakespeare
Robert Bresson quote: "Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen."
Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen. Robert Bresson
The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms. Oscar Wilde
Al Capp quote: "Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the..."
Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. Al Capp
In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art. Jodi Picoult
William Shakespeare quote: "For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art..."
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. William Shakespeare
Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis, or technology. Technology is built on science. Science is like the alchemists' uroburos, continually eating its own tail. The process of science doesn't work unless young scientists have the freedom to attack and tear down old dogmas, to engage in an ongoing Titanomachia. Science flourishes where art and free speech flourish. Neal Stephenson
Jim Morrison quote: "O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our..."
O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives. Jim Morrison
The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.) C. S. Lewis
Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing. Duane Michals
Galileo Galilei quote: "(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation,..."
(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts. Galileo Galilei
…the art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea…. It is on the back of an idea, something believed in with conviction or seen with precision and thus compelling words to a shape…. You have not finished with it because you have read it, any more than friendship is ended because it is time to part. Life wells up and alters and adds. Even things in a book-case change if they are alive; we find ourselves wanting to meet them again; we find them altered. So we look back... Virginia Woolf

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