Quotes of: Abstract-art Keyword

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.

Richard Le Gallienne

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Edward Gibbon

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Ezra Pound

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.

Earl Gray Stevens

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

Francisco de Goya

Notre religion, notre morale, notre philosophie, en sont que des formes de decadence de l humanite, le contre mouvement: l art

Friedrich Nietzsche

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

Fay Wray

My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever touch it.

George Brecht

An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.

Charlotte Eriksson

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

Criss Jami

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.

Claes Oldenburg

Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.

Charles R. Swindoll

The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.

Hippocrates

Leadership is an art expressed by the demonstration of characters worthy of immitation, emulation and inspiration. It is neither a title nor a postion.

Israelmore Ayivor

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

Jacques Audiard

Do people absolutely need the arts to get by day-to-day? You can make that claim, but they also really need a lot of things before that.

Jason Alexander

A critic must be knowledgeable in several fields, practices, and mediums. Brushing off art that they personally don't understand, is not a critique.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

Poem Words from the heart Breaking, teaching, healing The deepest, purest form of art Feeling

Esther Spurrill Jones

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.

Edward Levi

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

Chuck Close