Artful Quotes (page 24)

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• wishes
• beauty
• true

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious. Corin Nemec

• art
• magic
• quality

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic. Charles Eames

• art
• dead
• breaks

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. W. H. Auden

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• born
• humiliate

Art is born of humiliation. W. H. Auden

• art
• culture
• importantly

Art is such an important part of our culture. Rosanna Arquette

• mother child
• fruit
• manly

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb. Jean Arp

• art
• experience
• experiments

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem. Lindsay Anderson

• art
• lies
• magic

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. Theodor Adorno

• art
• integrity
• different

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. Theodor Adorno

• art
• manly
• reality

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. Chinua Achebe

• art
• fear
• life

I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that art has often judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past has suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. I know too that the powerful fear art, whatever its form, when it does this, and that amongst the people such art sometimes runs like a rumour and a legend because it makes sense of what life's brutalities cannot, a sense that unites us, for it is inseparable from a justice... John Berger

• art
• understanding
• mathematics

Only someone who doesn’t understand art tells an artist their art somehow failed. How the fuck can art fail? Art can’t be graded, because it’s going to mean something different to everyone. You can’t apply a mathematical absolute to art because there is no one formula for self-expression. Kevin Smith

• good
• art
• true

Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise. Ezra Pound

• art
• independent
• political

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. Mao Zedong

• art
• school
• technology

We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art. LL Cool J