883 private quotes tagged art

“Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.” — Joseph Conrad

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“I cry out for order and find it only in art.” — Helen Hayes

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“I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.” — Jackson Pollock

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“The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.” — Paul Gauguin

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“What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.” — Henri Matisse

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“The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.” — Morihei Ueshiba

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“After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.” — David Sedaris

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“The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.” — Cesare Pavese

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“I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.” — Daniel Radcliffe

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“Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.” — Drew Barrymore

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“An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.” — Thomas Mann

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“I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.” — Alfred Adler

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“I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.” — Jack Nicholson

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“The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.” — Cyril Connolly

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“Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.” — John Ruskin

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“When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.” — Marc Chagall

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“Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a d--n thing to do with Africa.” — Art Blakey

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“But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.” — Wole Soyinka

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“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.” — Duke Ellington

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“Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?” — Paul Cezanne

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“Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.” — Laura Riding

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“In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.” — Alberto Giacometti

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

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“It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.” — Henry Louis Gates

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