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“The Art of Peace begins with you. Work on yourself and your appointed task in the Art of Peace. Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment. Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all than you encounter.”
Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Inspire! What Great Leaders Do (2004) by Lance Secretan, p. 45
“A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.”
André Malraux (1901–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I never say I do political art. Nor do I do feminist art. I’m a woman who’s a feminist, who makes art. But I think what work becomes visible and what work remains absent is always a result of historical circumstance, you know—hard work, to some degree, and social relations.”
Barbara Kruger (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe art is a wholly formal enterprise, encompassing almost all the tenets that the nineteenth century spoke of as l’art pour l’art, tenets which have made twentieth century’s experimentation possible. (What postmodern doesn’t?)”
Samuel R. Delany (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love... It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigour of the earlier world?”
William Morris (1834–1896) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The History of Pattern-Designing" lecture (1882) The Collected Works of William Morris (1910 - 1915) Vol. 22
“Wind! wind! thou art sad, art thou kind? Wind, wind, unhappy! thou art blind, Yet still thou wanderest the lily-seed to find.”
William Morris (1834–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“..the art of becoming 'rich', in the common sense, is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves, but also of contriving that our neighbour shall have less. In accurate terms, it is 'the art of establishing the maximum inequality in your own favour'.”
John Ruskin (1819–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've never claimed that this is investment art. When we first started out, all the art colleges and universities across the country would sort of badmouth what we were doing. It's funny that a lot of them now are sending us letters saying, 'We may not totally agree with the way you paint, but we appreciate what you're doing, because you're sending literally thousands of people into art colleges.'”
Bob Ross (1942–1995) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1990) reported in Associated Press (July 7, 1995) "Bob Ross, Painting Instructor to Millions, Dead at 52".
“Finally I asked, “Um, Tom—are the uh, Alien Artifacts really art, or did you just say that to hassle Mother?” “They have to be art. Remember the First Law of Anthropology: if they’re doing something you don’t understand, it’s either an isolated lunatic, a religious ritual, or art.”
John Barnes (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of Art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires...”
Banksy (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou art verily the Lord of grace abounding. Thou dost indeed suffice every created thing and causest it to be independent of all things, while nothing in the heavens or on the earth or that which lieth between them can ever suffice Thee. Verily Thou art the Self-Sufficient, the All-Knowing; Thou art indeed potent over all things.”
Báb (1819–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The one standard in art is oneness and fineness, rightness and purity, abstractness and evanescence. The one thing to say about art is, its breathlessness, lifelessness, deathlessness, contentlessness, formlessness, spacelessness, and timelessness. This is always the end of art.”
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Were this thoroughly understood, industrial art would be entirely revolutionized — industrial art, that barbarous term, an art which concerns itself with commerce and profit.”
Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I first saw Calder's art very long ago [c. 1928 in Paris, Miro saw Calder performing his mechanical 'Circus' for the Paris' art scene, all puppets made from metal wire and wood] I thought it was good, but not art.”
Joan Miró (1893–1983) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: 'New York Times', 3 April 1969
“Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of its means in any way it likes, but is bound to its laws and to its laws alone. The minute it becomes art, it becomes much more sublime than a class distinction between proletariat and bourgeoisie.”
Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Manifesto Proletkult, 1923
“I cannot make a living out of art and I now occupy myself with a variety of things. Of course, I continue to paint and to nail, but in particular I write grotesques and art reviews for newspapers, I organize evenings [a.o. with Theo van Doesburg ] and draw commercial art for newspapers.”
Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a letter to w:Galka Scheyer, January 1926; as quoted in I is Style, ed. Siegfried Gohr & Gunda Luyken, NAI Publishers, Rotterdam 2000, p. 34.
“It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking the nearest exit, art responds to a new situation by uncovering a labyrinth of problems.”
Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art, this selection is guided by taste, elegance, and metaphor; it is a matter of induction, rather than deduction. High science depends on this art.”
John Henry Holland (1929–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The techniques for making art thus morally acceptable, of drawing its fangs, are endless; and each generation finds its own. Just now the democratic machinery for rendering art safe is so efficient that it seems that the system can absorb anything. It would be exciting to think that somewhere in Europe there was a man making art which was so violent and true that the system could not take it.”
Patrick Swift (1927–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But the dance of the future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, is mere merchandise.”
Isadora Duncan (1877–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Can AI produce real art? The art world thrives on rarity. Much like diamonds, which require millions of years of tectonic pressure to form, true art requires the human mind and a lifetime of mastering the medium. AI produces the 'industrial' equivalent—a flood of the common and the non-rare—destining it for the overcrowded slushpile at the base of the pyramid where no one bothers to look.”
Siddharth Katragadda (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The rules of art do not exist, because what makes art art is the fact that it obeys no rules at all.”
Elfriede Jelinek (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again. Some work is too large, complex and expensive to move. Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.”
Donald Judd (1928–1994) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Donald Judd (1987) Complete writings, 1975-1986. p. 111
“Material, space, and color are the main aspects of visual art. Everyone knows that there is material that can be picked up and sold, but no one sees space and color. Two of the main aspects of art are invisible; the basic nature of art is invisible.”
Donald Judd (1928–1994) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Artforum International. Vol. 32 (1994), p. 38
“Once upon a time men resisted the implications of actuality. That day is gone. We know now that art is the thing itself together with its extensions into superfluity. Not pop art, I hasten to say, which sneers and exaggerates. This is popular art, which simply exists. This is the age in which we unconditionally accept the unacceptable, and thus proclaim the naturalness of our artificiality.”
Robert Sheckley (1928–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou art—what? Let the still small voice of God help you to fill it in. Must the answer be, thou art—impure, intemperate, dishonest, untruthful, irreverent, blasphemous, selfish, covetous, careless, unkind, lukewarm, lazy, ungrateful, unforgiving, filled with hypocrisy, defeated, a slave? Thou art—. Be honest. Fill it in.”
Kirby Page (1890–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Either build functional houses and bridges or create pure art or both. Don't confuse one with the other. Such art is not pure constructive art, but merely an imitation of the machine.”
Naum Gabo (1890–1977) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quote, 1919; as cited in: Ruth Latta (1948) Naum Gabo. Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), p. 18
“[In that vision] nothing is seen other than Thyself, [for Thou] art Thyself the object of Thyself (for Thou seest, and art That which is seen, and art the sight as well)”
Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) said by 1464 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why can there not be a new art founded on the only principle which can produce great art—the principle that art is the interpretation or extraction of the essence of beauty in nature, and all else is secondary?”
Ernest Flagg (1857–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Reason...to suppose any production, worthy to be called a work of art, can be made without its use is foolish. ...By the use of reason many mistakes in design may be avoided and many counterfeits of art readily detected....Beauty alone is an excellent reason for many things, but when a design is in direct conflict with common sense it cannot be a work of art.”
Ernest Flagg (1857–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Age of Insight is a product of my... fascination with the intellectual history of Vienna from 1890 to 1918, as well as my interest in Austrian modernist art, psychoanalysis, art history, and the brain science that is my life's work. ...I examine the ongoing dialogue between art and science that had its origins in fin-de-siècle Vienna and document its three major phases.”
Eric Kandel (born 1929) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Age of Insight (2012)
“The Age of Insight is a product of my subsequent fascination with the intellectual history of Vienna from 1890 to 1918, as well as my interest in Austrian modernist art, psychoanalysis, art history, and the brain science that is my life's work. In this book I examine the ongoing dialogue between art and science that had its origins in fin-de-siècle Vienna...”
Eric Kandel (born 1929) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I also found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all kinds of unorthodox expression, all kinds of daring in the handling of materials, and I preferred to surround myself with this type of art than with the great collectors' pieces.”
Jacques Lipchitz (1891–1973) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jacques Lipchitz in: The Lipchitz (Jacques, Yulla & Lolya) Collection. University Publishers, 1960. p. 4
“The notion of style has long been the art historian's principal mode of classifying works of art. By style he selects and shapes the history of art.”
George Kubler (1912–1996) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: George Kubler summarizing the view of Meyer Schapiro (with whom he disagrees), quoted by Alpers in Lang, Berel (ed.), The Concept of Style, 1987, Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
“A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg,... is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.”
Hans Haacke (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At the beginning I was confronted with a choice: move into art or revolutionary politics,... I took the path of art at the age of 18.... I could see this possibility of using the ideas of social change within art.”
Gustav Metzger (1926–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Kinetic art was created by artists who pushed the boundaries of traditional, static art forms to introduce visual experiences that would engage the audience and profoundly change the course of modern art.”
Theo Jansen (born 1948) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Theo Jansen, quoted in: "2015 International Kinetic Art Exhibit & Symposium - Boynton Beach, FL, USA," 2015
“Video art is art that will stretch the boundaries of the art world.”
Gregory Battcock (1937–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gregory Battcock early 1970s, as quoted in: "Art history course 2013-14," at uchicago.edu, Department of Art History, 18 Feb. 2014.
“Only a distinctive individual can produce great art. Great art is synonymous with anonymous art.”
Fritz Wotruba (1907–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value. It is the art of helping your customers become better of.”
Philip Kotler (born 1931) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: Robert W. Price (2001), Internet and Business, 2001-2002. p. 117
“Child rearing is an art, and what makes art art is that it is doing several things at once.”
Adam Gopnik (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“..crushed by the strength of this Art [the old Egyptian art].. .I fought against it but it conquered, it is surely the greatest Art the past has left us.. ..how are my feeble hands to ever paint the effect on me.”
Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Cassatt, after her trip to Egypt, 1910; as cited by Nancy Mowll Mathews, in Mary Cassatt: A Life, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1998, p. 291 - ISBN 978-0-585-36794-1
“It is true that art today is pluralistic. Pluralism was noticed by certain followers of Ludwig Wittgenstein. What makes art so powerful a force as it appears to be in song and story is due to what makes it art to begin with. There is really nothing like it when it comes to stirring the spirit.”
Arthur Danto (1924–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was destined from early childhood. I drew anything and everything. Later when I developed my abilities in high school, I was inspired by storybook illustrations, traditional landscape paintings, surrealism, science fiction art and automotive advertising art. I wanted to use my talents for something along those lines, rather than 'fine art' per se.”
Ted Nasmith (born 1956) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Ted Nasmith (May 29, 2006)
“Thy love hath taken me from me; Thou, Thou art needed by me. Day and night do I burn; Thou, Thou art needed by me. Were they to slay me, let them winnow my ashes into the heavens. There let my dust cry, "Thou, Thou art needed by me.”
Yunus Emre (1241–1321) said by 1321 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Veteran artists have been struggling to present art in the reconstruction of the country. In a country that is developing fast, art is what helps us define who we are and where we belong. Art is society.”
Carole Karemera (born 1975) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Carole Karemera said this when she was among the panelists at the Reclaiming Arts event (The New Times, Friday, February 17, 2017)
“The novel is an art form and when you use it for anything other than art, you pervert it....If you manage to use it successfully for social, religious, or other purposes, it is because you make it art first. (1956)”
Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This project, which included my mother’s participation, was a great collaboration between academically-trained artists and the guild of bronze casters. It was a multi-genre project comprising performance art, sculpture, site-specific paintings, photography, installation art and video art which was funded in part from the University of Lagos Central Research grant.”
Peju Layiwola (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Energy is neither good nor evil. It is a neutral power which can be used well or badly. The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way...By daily practice, you can become a CONSCIOUS AND INTELLIGENT DIRECTOR OF ENERGY. (8: "THE ART OF CONVERTING ENERGY")”
Laura Huxley (1911–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“creativity is not the monopoly of the Shakespeares and Einsteins of this world. There is a science of intelligent living, an art of being fully human, in which we all can and ought to be creative. To use our imagination is part of the total art of being. To imagine other people's imagination is part of the art of being with others.”
Laura Huxley (1911–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source