30.9.12

Kutipan (Quote) - Art (6)

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
Fran Lebowitz

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
Henry Miller

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Gustave Flaubert

Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Havelock Ellis

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
E. M. Forster

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Friedrich Schiller

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
Arthur Erickson

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Theodor Adorno

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
Theodor Adorno

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo

Art is science made clear.
Wilson Mizner

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
Jerzy Kosinski

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Harry S. Truman

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
Cyril Connolly

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
Elia Kazan

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
Laurie Anderson

Things are beautiful if you love them.
Jean Anouilh

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
Arthur Erickson

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Tadao Ando

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
James Taylor

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