Quotes of: Art-history Keyword

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Walter Pater

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

Wallace Stevens

I have a home-school group with a couple of my friends. We switch off going to each others' houses and going to the library to do art and stuff. It's almost like our own little school - a really little school.

Willow Shields

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Wole Soyinka

A photocopier is a camera in its own right. I was fortunate to grow up in the time and culture that I did. I was allowed to develop an awareness that the art that really moves me is actually based on an original image.

Wolfgang Tillmans

I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.

Yayoi Kusama

While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.

Yayoi Kusama

That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing.

Hear the Wind Sing

It would be both an identical work of art only by virtue of its difference. The same but different, he suggested, like twins.

The Human Script

This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes.

Hold Still

An artist must either give up art or develop.

I Lost it at the Movies: Film Writings, 1954-1965

It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.

The Island of the Day Before

He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.

Iaiá Garcia

I want to meet a guy named Art. I'd take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and leave.

I Want

Others beside Jane Austen have made their Eltons, though none quite so cooly as she.

Jane Austen And Her Art

In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women.

Jane Austen And Her Art

A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.

Jane Austen And Her Art

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

Justine

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

Rooftop Soliloquy

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -- Stella Adler

Stella! Mother of Modern Acting