Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered in
herds, droves, species, in which each individual, while subservient to the mass, retains some distinguishing features. A crowd of people, birds,
insects, or leaves is a mysterious assemblage of variants of certain prototype. A riddle of nature's abhorrence of exact repetition or inability
to produce it. Just as the human hand cannot repeat its own gesture, I invoke this disturbing law, switching my own immobile herds into that rhythm.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
It is easy to follow, but it is uninteresting to do easy things. We find out about ourselves only when we take risks, when we challenge and question.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression ... I feel an affinity for art when it was made a
form of existence, like when shamans worked in the territory between men and unknown powers ... I try to bewitch the crowd.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
Dean Acheson
I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art
but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is
knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.
Douglas Adams
I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to
avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.
Douglas Adams
There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.
Douglas Adams
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not
that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
Henry Adams
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Daniel Barenboim
Politics is the art of the possible.
Otto von Bismarck
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
Samuel Butler (Author)
Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks.
Roger Caras
Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
Cervantes
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Marc Chagall
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion ... produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau
I should paint my own places best.
John Constable
Painting is but another word for feeling.
John Constable
The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork ... those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.
John Constable
Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions
which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty.
Eugène Delacroix
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
Max Eastman
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Max Eastman
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
Max Eastman
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dance is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
Havelock Ellis
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford
The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on earth. Stand back and you get the drift.
Bernard Ingham
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is
sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.
Carl Jung
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Leonardo da Vinci
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.
Henri Matisse
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow
people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Gloria Naylor
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your
horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Charlie Parker
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
Octavio Paz
People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
Pablo Picasso
When I was the age of these children I could draw like Raphael: it took me many years to learn how to draw like these children.
Pablo Picasso
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
Helen Rowland
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent
All art is but imitation of nature.
Seneca
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
Mary Heaton Vorse
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar Wilde
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