A Quote by Eli Siegel

Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.

Eli Siegel

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Art Make New Old Soothing Sudden Surprising

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Eli Siegel
Poet
August 16, 1902 - November 8, 1978

One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old

Leon Trotsky

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

Jasper Johns

We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn't changed that much in the last thousand or two thousand years.So that the old Greek dramas are still at the very heart, core, of human experience, but still we need new stuff.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

As tradition, the female element clings to the old art and opposes anything new - precisely because each new art moves further away from the natural appearance of things.

Piet Mondrian

Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. New-made friendships, like new wine, Age will mellow and refine. Friendships that have stood the test - Time and change - are surely best; Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay. For 'mid old friends, tried and true, Once more we our youth renew. But old friends, alas! may die, New friends must their place supply. Cherish friendship in your breast- New is good, but old is best; Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.

Joseph Parry

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

Gelett Burgess

When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician -- make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor -- make good art. IRS on your trail -- make good art. Cat exploded -- make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you're doing is stupid or evil or it's all been done before -- make good art.

Neil Gaiman

Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old.

John Landis

Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.

Walter Darby Bannard

Besides the soothing effect it has, I think my favorite part of writing is being able to use my imagination and creativity to make new ideas and people and situations come to life.

Christopher Paul Curtis

My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you.

Ilona Andrews

When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.

Sandra Bernhard

That's really the whole point of art - it's to take something commonplace and draw people on a path so that, all of a sudden, they have a new impression of everything around them.

Genesis P-Orridge

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

Fran Lebowitz

To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.