4,875 quotes found
“The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract.”
“Art is man's nature nature is God's art.”
“With the pride of the artist you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.”
“All art is a kind of confession more or less oblique. All artists if they are to survive are forced at last to tell the whole story to vomit the anguish up.”
“History repeats itself but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.”
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world I an artist I will answer you: T am here to live out loud.'”
“In any evolutionary process even in the arts the search for novelty becomes corrupting.”
“The cheap no matter how charming how immediate does not wear so well. It has a way of telling its whole story the first time through.”
“Art gropes it stalks like a hunter lost in the woods listening to itself and to everything around it unsure of itself waiting to pounce.”
“What's an artist but the dregs of his work - the human shambles that follows it around?”
“Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted everything in fact which masks reality from us in order to ...”
“Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which throughout his lifetime he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles.”
“As an artist grows older he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult as he had when a child.”
“An artist never really finishes his work he merely abandons it.”
“Living is a form of not being sure not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong but we take leap after...”
“The artist like the idiot or clown sits on the edge of the world and a push may send him over it.”
“Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art if it be art will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives ...”
“Art isn't something you marry it's something you rape.”
“It's not what you see that is art art is the gap.”
“Art upsets science reassures.”
