Quotations
There
is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and
sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only, are this man's
lawful prey.
John Ruskin, 1819 - 1900
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the
truth.
Pablo Picasso
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Henri Matisse
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about
his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
Henry Moore
Pictures must not be too picturesque. (I quadri non devono essere quadrati
)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist
does the better.
André Gide
An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.
Paul Valéry
For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For
the artist what and how are one.
William McElcheran
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
George Moore
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
John Ruskin
Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.
You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
Vilfredo Pareto
When the student is ready, the master appears.
Buddhist Proverb
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what
is untrue.
Antisthenes
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge
in pursuit of the child.
George
Bernard Shaw
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether
at twenty or eighty.
Henry Ford
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
Dudley Field Malone
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than
we do from learning the answer itself.
Lloyd Alexander
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that
reflects it.
Edith Wharton
Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented
citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated.
John Kenneth Galbraith
If I had 6 hours to cut down a tree, I would spend 4 hours sharpening my axe!
Old Chinese Martial Arts Master
The bigger fear that people feel threatened by is the fear of change. Artists
bring change, because you cannot be creative and just duplicate or illustrate
known facts.
John
Cage
I think that art is not the monopoly of the artist only. I do believe that
the human being could not survive without art. I think that one of the tragedies
of the present world is that we have relegated art to just a secondary role.
Man can live without science in the modern sense of the word. The human being
cannot survive without art. Art means to make something of your life with
your body and with your surroundings on a human scale. Art doesn't mean to
be a great performer or a great creator.
Raimon Panikkar
Art is not life and cannot be
A mid wife to society.
W. H. Auden
There once was a man of Belfast
Whose balls out of iron were cast.
He'd managed somehow
To bugger a sow,
Thus you get pig-iron, at last.
Anon. da Harrison Ms., New York 1947
In Christianity, we have very often forgotten that the first attribute of
God is beauty, the first way in which you enter contact with the divine is
through beauty. Without this sensitivity, the openness to beauty, to form,
to shape, which the Greeks called morphe, life is boring. Then, obviously,
in order to overcome boredom, you have to do something, to be on the go all
the time doing more things and making more havoc.
Raimon Panikkar
Never waste a thing. I think Joseph (Joseph Beuys - his spiritual economy
was: if I care for you, others will care for me) had the same idea. He
may have used this in a more controlled conceptual idea. I never saw anything
that was wasted, that shouldn't be used.
I think waste has to be digested into a creative situation, in order for it
to have any meaning whatsoever. You can't just advertise the fact that there
is more than we need.
Robert Rauschenberg
I think that fundamentally all activity is an art. Science is a particular
kind of art, which emphasizes certain things. Then we have the visual artists,
the musical artists and various kinds of other artists, who are specialized
in different ways. But fundamentally art is present everywhere. The very word
'art' in Latin means 'to fit'. The whole notion of the cosmos means 'order'
in Greek. It is an artistic concept really.
David Bohm
When nations grow old the arts grow cold,
And commerce settles on every tree.
William Blake
Whoever
does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.
Anon
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always
to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which
ones to keep.
Scott Adams
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that
we deserve them.
Aristotle(maybe)
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Pleasure in the job put perfection in the work.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
There is no such thing as modern art. There is art--and there is advertising.
Albert Sterner
The work praises the man.
Irish Proverb
Men have become the tools of their trade.
Henry David Thoreau
Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.
Anon
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
Oliver Goldsmith
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the
rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
Bruce Grocott
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation,
it is a corpse.
Winston Churchill
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
Northrop Frye
Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness
of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin
Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
Eric Gill
Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic
dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom
of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?
Nadine Gordimer
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Paul Klee
All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.
Winkelmann
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what
they become by it.
John Ruskin