Quotes about art
artist principles machines
The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex. Adam Smith
artist order space
In order to be artists we need to be in our studios, in our private rooms... in our private personal space... that sacred protected space, so we can make our work. That's the only work that's worth making, right? That's the place where we can be free enough and vulnerable enough to share what we have to share. Adam Leipzig
art secret want
The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true. Adam Phillips
art thinking dying
I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form. Adam Levine
art jobs thinking
I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster. Adam McKay
artist style finals
I like adding little elements into the final mix. I'm more fond of the '70s glam than '80s. I have that style of vocals... there are a lot of pop artists who are using the glam vibe in their music. I'm part of that wave. Adam Lambert
artist people my-favorite
I never really listen to what people say. My thing is that my favorite artists are artists that are theatrical. Obviously when you are doing a recording, things aren't gonna translate as over-the-top. Adam Lambert
artist goal hip-hop
Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music. Adam Kluger
art writing talking
For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw? Adam Gopnik
art skills drawing
Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment. Adam Gopnik
artist businessman
The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist. Ad Reinhardt
art class chinese
I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities. Ad Reinhardt
artist forever appearance
The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance. Ad Reinhardt
artist names asks
We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't. Ad Reinhardt
art museums ideas
I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists. Ad Reinhardt
art years fifty
The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not. Ad Reinhardt
artist painting mature
Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist. Ad Reinhardt
art artist burden
An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art. Ad Reinhardt
art taken serious
Art is too serious to be taken seriously. Ad Reinhardt
artist color interesting
As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color. Ad Reinhardt
art business ideas
The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist. Ad Reinhardt
artist
The more an artist works the more there is to do. Ad Reinhardt
art art-is
Art is art. Everything else is everything else. Ad Reinhardt
art self skills
The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously as possible. ... ornament is not only a source of sensuous pleasure; it supplies a necessary kind of magic to people and places that lack it. More than just a dread of empty spaces has led to the urge to decorate; it is the fear of empty selves. Ada Louise Huxtable
art strong civilization
Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet. Ada Louise Huxtable
art cutting history
Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind. Ada Louise Huxtable
art responsibility vision
The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture's essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know. Ada Louise Huxtable
art new-york impact
In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment. Ada Louise Huxtable
art lying tragedy
The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried. Ada Louise Huxtable
art self feelings
Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work. What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before. Ada Louise Huxtable
art soul age
Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century. Abraham Kuyper
art motive higher
The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this. Abraham Kuyper
art grace doe
We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to the State, but obey a high authority within their own bosom; an authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does. Abraham Kuyper