Quotes of: Modern-art Keyword

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

John Ruskin

To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

Jerry Saltz

To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.

Kat Graham

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.

Kevin Smith

Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

Lake Bell

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Marcus Aurelius

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

Mike Birbiglia

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Miguel de Cervantes

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Margaret Fuller

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Margot Fonteyn

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

Michael Heizer

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

Nicolas Chamfort

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.

Orlando Bloom

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.

Philipp Meyer

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

Paul Simonon

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

Robert Smithson

The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.

Shepard Fairey

It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.

Steve Martin

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Toni Morrison