Top 1200 Art Of Loving Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

I've been covering the art industry for nine years, and I still don't feel like I have a clear grasp on what an art consultant does. What's the difference between a dealer and an art consultant? Who are they? What's their day to day like? So I asked a few private dealers, consultants and curators to talk about what they do. Everyone told me a different story.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.

Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving.

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature.

Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything.

Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.

I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.

I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are striving for alternatives in an increasingly dehumanized world. I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.

The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.

One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.

Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen. Then what will be the quality? Watchfully alert, joyously unmotivated, centered, loving, flowing, one walks. And the walking is sauntering. Loving, alert, watchful, one sits, unmotivated - not sitting for anything in particular, just enjoying how beautiful just sitting doing nothing is, how relaxing, how restful.

In the past, art was admired and revered from afar. Today, there is more of an interactive relationship between the art and the person who admires it.

There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.

I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

If the picture is not an artistic picture, it's show, like television. Television series are very funny, but it's a collective production. An industrial art. A car is not made by a person, it's made by a group of creators, only to go to the market to buy your cigarettes. That is a car - they are not a big art, they are a little art.

I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.

Learning to trust our intuition is an art form, and like all other art forms, it takes practice to perfect.

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.

You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.

I think the problem with the art market and the art scene is that it is its own beast. It thrives and breathes and defecates independently of the artist.

I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.

As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.

I spend much more time looking at art history and at different references to art than I do at actual objects.

Fashion is one of the most beautiful forms of art we have. It's a form of art that every person gets to possess and create for themselves.

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.

Fashion, art, and architecture are all so tightly connected; I think the way to approach referencing these art works is by capturing the essence.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

The art of climbing is the art of survival. The best climber is the man or woman going in the most crazy places but surviving.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

The great biblical tradition says that loving God and loving one's neighbor are not two separate actions but two sides of the same action. It was the prophet Amos who bore witness to the fact that divine worship is nothing but human justice being offered to God and human justice is nothing but divine worship being lived out.

I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.

There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa.

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of algorithms, so a lot of people are going to want to make art that's like an algorithm. But my language is painting, and painting is the opposite of that. There's something primal about it. It's innate, the need to make marks. That's why, when you're a child, you scribble.

I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.

Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist.

Art is universal. When works of art become classics, it is because they transcend geographical boundaries, racial barriers and time.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible things.

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.

The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.

Art curates compassion. Art to me breaks down walls and allows us to step into somebody else's shoes.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability