Art Quotes - Page 5

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

Annie Leibovitz

Photography is an itch that wont go away. No matter how much you scratch it.

God creates the beauty. Through my camera, I am a witness.

The camera basically is a license to explore.

Jerry N. Uelsmann

The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same compulsion to pass themselves off - or pimp themselves out - as art. The simple truth is that the best exponents of the art of contemporary photography continue to produce work that fits broadly within the tradition of what Evans termed 'documentary style'.

God creates the beauty. My camera and I are a witness.

Art is unpredictable.

Photography is a Passion Not a Hobby!

ilyass azaryouh

(...) photography opened up quite a little Pandora's box, kiddies. (...) Once we no longer had to depend on drawing and painting to record our existence — once they became an option — they mutated . . . into a form of expression. And Art for its own sake, God help us, was born.

Chip Kidd

The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key.

Luhraw

I am intrigued with scriptural mythology that tells us that God created a divine feminine presence to dwell amongst humanity. This concept has had a constant influence on the work. I have imagined her as ubiquitous, watchful, and often in motion. This work is, in effect, the photographic image of the invisible.

An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they?

Luhraw

The visual arts will one day be king. The pop stars and celebrities soon to be forgotten.

Luhraw

I love women more on canvas than real life, for they seldom change on canvas!

Ramana Pemmaraju

There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching.

Sontag

Photography is not a lens but eye, not a business but art

Farid F. Ibrahim

Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.

if you have the tools but do not have the visual concept, the tools do not work

We are living in a moment where we have broken the equilibrium of the planet. We are not paying attention to our intuitive side. We only pay attention to our reason. We have become an urban animal

Sebastião Salgado

Photography captures a moment in time. Art captures time in a moment.

I look for ambiguity because life is ambiguous!

Galleries are frightening places, places of evaluation, of judgement.

Margaret Atwood

There are two characters in me: a doodler and a tuner. And the only thing that makes me go crazy is when they both fight for their turn.

wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it

Bob Ross

Art has one purpose, that is to leave you changed. Love has one purpose, that is to create art.

Julieanne O'Connor

Once all the blocks were on the quad, Rowena grew obsessed with arranging them perfectly. I didn’t care at this point and busied myself texting a message to Sydney on the Love Phone, letting her know that my art was a paltry thing compared to the brilliance of her beauty. She texted back: This is me rolling my eyes. To which I replied: I love you too.

There is a difference between obsessive perfectionism and taking time to create something that is the best you can offer. Knowing what needs to be better and stretching to improve yourself is what separates the mediocre from the marvelous.

They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?

Peggy Kopman-Owens

Sit there and look pretty.

Hissa AlBoot AlShehhi

The best creates, the rest follows

Richard Lee JuiChe

I guess the fact that they made something they could be proud of is more important than any prize ever could be. I can understand that. The beauty of the clothing itself is in the eye of the beholder. Judging art on a point system in the first place seems totally ridiculous! But since I grew up in such a competitive, point-awarding world, I wanted the grand prize more than anything. I wanted to be number one and get all the glory. Glory, huh... how stupid!

Ai Yazawa

Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road.We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.

Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status.

Abigail Biddinger

I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

The job of art is not to store moments of experience but to explore environments that are otherwise invisible. Art is not a retrieval system of precious moments of past cultures. Art has a live, ongoing function. McLuhan CD-ROM

Marshall McLuhan

Perhaps the only people with the right to look at images of suffering of this extreme order are those who could do something to alleviate it— say, the surgeons at the military hospital where the photograph was taken—or those who could learn from it. The rest of us are voyeurs, whether or not we mean to be.

Sontag

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Do not let reading become a forgotten art

i want to bleed ink and shit prose.

Jonathan Culver

i want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.

Jonathan Culver

... in art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.

Jorge Luis Borges

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

Ted Shawn

When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning.

Dancing is to music what a beloved wife is to her husband. Both of them are so in love, you can't separate them.

Growing up in NYC,The broken sidewalks, graffiti filled subways, and humid Laundromats, did not offer solace. I found solace in the strings of my violin, in my ballet slippers at the studio, and while gazing at frescoes in the halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was always in the Arts that my soul was replenished.

Susan Anne Russell

To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art.

It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.

Ayn Rand

It [ballet] is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love.

Ayn Rand

Dancing is very like poetry.

A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet’s image of man.

Ayn Rand

Philosophy is to the mind of the architect as eyesight to his steps. The Term 'genius' when applied to him simply means a man who understands what others only know about. A poet, artist or architect, necessarily 'understands' in this sense and is likely, if not careful, to have the term 'genius' applied to him; in which case he will no longer be thought human, trustworthy or companionable. Whatever may be his medium of expression he utters truth with manifest beauty of thought. If he is an architect, his building is natural. In him, philosophy and genius live by each other, but the combination is subject to popular suspicion and appellation 'genius' likely to settle him--so far as the public is concerned.

Frank Lloyd Wright

It was the quartets of Beethoven (numbers 12,13,14, and 15) which over fifty years, created and expanded the the audience of listeners to the quartets of Beethoven, thus achieving, as all masterpieces do, progress if not in the quality of artists, at least in the company of minds, which is largely composed these days of what was missing when the work appeared: people capable of liking it.

People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Seeker, The Teacher and The Genius:Knowing is an art; communicating that knowledge is art twice over; but it is only the genius who can use that knowledge.

And now as if the cleaning and the scrubbing and the scything and the mowing had drowned it there rose that half-heard melody, that intermittent music which the ear half catches but lets fall; a bark, a bleat; irregular, intermittent, yet somehow related; the hum of an insect, the tremor of cut grass, dissevered yet somehow belonging; the jar of a dor beetle, the squeak of a wheel, loud, low, but mysteriously related; which the ear strains to bring together and is always on the verge of harmonising but they are never quite heard, never fully harmonised, and at last, in the evening, one after another the sounds die out, and the harmony falters, and silence falls. With the sunset sharpness was lost, and like mist rising, quiet rose, quiet spread, the wind settled; loosely the world shook itself down to sleep, darkly here without a light to it, save what came green suffused through leaves, or pale on the white flowers by the window.[Lily Briscoe had her bag carried up to the house late one evening in September. Mr. Carmichael came by the same train.]

Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal climate of art is intelligence and knowledge: its normal soil, the civilized heritage of a consistent and integrated system of beliefs and values; its normal horizon , the infinity of human experience enlighted by the passionate insight of anguish or the intellectual virtues of a contemplative mind.

Jacques Maritain

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

T.S Eliot

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