“You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.”
Quotes about art
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“There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.”
“The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.”
“The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.”
“With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!”
“Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.”
“Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.”
“Art and science have their meeting point in method.”
“Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.”
“I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.”
“A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.”
“It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.”
“I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.”
“Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.”
“In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.”
“In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.”
“Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.”
“Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.”
“The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.”
“I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.”
“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.”
“Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?”
“Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.”
“Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.”