A Quote by George Bellows

Art strives for structure, and aspires for magnificence.

George Bellows

Quote Topics

Art Magnificence Structure

Quote Author

George Bellows
American - Painter
August 19, 1882 - January 8, 1925

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.

Gerhard Richter

No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.

John Piper

There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.

Socrates

The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum.

Mario Botta

Every new social structure strives to come up with some kind of mythology of divine origin for its values and aims.

Zsuzsanna Budapest

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

Walter Pater

The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship.

Rick Rubin

I use the Scriptures, not as an arsenal to be resorted to only for arms and weapons, but as a matchless temple, where I delight to be, to contemplate the beauty, the symmetry, and the magnificence of the structure, and to increase my awe, and excite my devotion to the Deity there preached and adored.

Robert Boyle

Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern, not the structure of conformity which imprisons but the structure which liberates, sets us free to become growing, mature human beings.

Madeleine L'Engle

When you realize your own magnificence, you will only attract magnificence into your life.

Anita Moorjani

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

Rose Bird

The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work accomplishes what it strives to achieve. It has to be genuine - not mannered or stylistically driven.

Wayne Thiebaud

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

James Turrell

It may well be, of course, that America's pop culture is on balance better than our high art. I don't think so, but you can certainly make a case that the best of it aspires to a degree of aesthetic and emotional seriousness that is directly comparable to all but the very greatest works of high art.