Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. "

Related Quotes:

" You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer. "

" The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste. "

David Rockefeller

" Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. "

" Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? "

" When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. "

" He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. "

" Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa. "

" My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes. "

Steve Prefontaine

" Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is. "

" Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. "

" The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. "

John James Audubon

" By the very nature of his art, which depends on invention and innovation, a story teller must depart from the beaten track and, having done so, occasionally startle and disagree with some of his associates. Healthy disagreement we must have. "

Preston Sturges

" 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. "

" Creating any type of art is all about mood. I've been making extreme music in one fashion or another for decades. And truthfully, Down has a big enough fan base to where I could remain content to do only that, but music is a vast territory and I am an explorer. And I'm a lover of all things considered extreme in music. "

" My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. "

" I like to learn. That's an art and a science. "

Katherine Johnson

" 'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure. "

" Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better. "

" Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. "

" The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. "

" Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology. "

Edward Thorndike

" Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. "

" The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing. "

" There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. "

William Shakespeare

" I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it. "

" Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. "

" Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. "

Dante Alighieri

" Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed. "

John C. McGinley

" What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. "

" There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art. "