"Art" Quotes . Top 32 Short Quotes About "Art"

"Every art form changes, often at rates and in ways that cause discomfort to its devotees. But the arts also have a remarkable ability to withstand and absorb those changes, and to prove wrong the prophecies of their demise."

--- A. O. Scott

#Demise #Way #Rate

"As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me."

--- A. P. Herbert

#People #Used #Goodbye

"Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization."

--- A. R. Ammons

#Mean #Contradiction #Source

"While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does."

--- A. R. Rahman

#Creator #Bigs #Looks

"Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Instruction #Art #Pleasure

"I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Thinking #World #Art

"Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Please #Criticise #May

"The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track."

--- A. Y. Jackson

#Forgotten #Waiting #Path

"To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving."

--- A. Y. Jackson

#Ignored #Missions #Left

"Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence."

--- Aaron Betsky

#World #Existence #Everyday

"The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No.""

--- Aaron Copland

#Music #Famous Musician #Composer

"Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness."

--- Aaron Copland

#Consciousness #May #Self

"Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving."

--- Aaron Hill

#Deceiving #Innocent #Looks

"I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in."

--- Aaron Koblin

#Exposed #Used #Gaming

"As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming."

--- Aaron Koblin

#Modifying #Interesting #Programming

"I'm not crazy impressed with New York. I mean, I don't buy into that whole thing: Everyone in New York is all sophisticated, and they're into art and sophisticated things, and everyone in L.A. is just shallow entertainment people. I think people are just shallow across the board."

--- Aaron McGruder

#People #Thinking #Shallow

"I do think comics are a dying art form because newspapers are a dying medium. But it's not to say that in the next generation, where there's people getting their news electronically, comics won't survive. Right now, they're still largely attached to the newspaper world. And the more they can break away from that, the more they have a chance to live on."

--- Aaron McGruder

#People #Thinking #Break

"At dances when I was a little kid, Art would be up there singing while I'd be dancing with some girl a foot taller than me."

--- Aaron Neville

#Kids #Singing #Feet

"Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists.""

--- Aaron Scharf

#Mean #Mediums #Glad

"How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography.""

--- Aaron Scharf

#Awareness #Approach #Visuals

"The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists."

--- Aaron Scharf

#Creative #Today #Artistic

"Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too."

--- Aaron Scharf

#Eye #Taken #Questioning

"We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs."

--- Aaron Siskind

#World #Belief #Creativity

"In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration."

--- Aaron Siskind

#Differences #Creativity #Knows

"To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships."

--- Aaron Siskind

#Thinking #Mean #Viewers

"I grew up doing martial arts, and I love martial arts movies and fight scenes. I'm pretty athletic, so I enjoy doing that stuff."

--- Aaron Yoo

#Scene #Fighting #Martial Arts

"What I am trying to say is that it is not without any value. The value of copies is that they can direct us towards the original. I was recently at the Louvre Museum and I was filming people who were viewing the Mona Lisa. I noticed the number of ordinary people, astonished, mouths agape, standing still for long stretches looking at the work, and I wondered, "Where does this come from? Are these people all art connoisseurs?" They are like me; through the years, we've seen this work in our schoolbooks or art history books, but when we stand before the original, we hold our breath."

--- Abbas Kiarostami

#People #Book #Agape

"A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience."

--- Abbas Kiarostami

#Works Of Art #Perception #Art

"I perfected the art of being uninteresting."

--- Abbi Glines

#Art

"[On art:] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more observant and understanding, regardless of whatever age it springs from, whatever subjects it represents."

--- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

#I Believe #Observant #Believe

"Among the greatest of all great services is the education of children, and promotion of the various sciences, crafts and arts. Praised be God, ye are now exerting strenuous efforts toward this end. The more ye persevere in this most important task, the more will ye witness the confirmations of God, to such a degree that ye yourselves will be astonished."

--- Abdu'l-Bahá

#Great Service #Ends #Tasks

"All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful harmonies. Again, shining through the mind of a poet, it is seen in fine poetry and poetic prose. When the Light of the Sun of Truth inspires the mind of a painter, he produces marvellous pictures. These gifts are fulfilling their highest purpose, when showing forth the praise of God."

--- Abdu'l-Bahá

#Shining Through #Beautiful #Holy Spirit

32 "Art" Quotes