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“I began to define my work as “about to happen” in the 1970s. This is my view of how art exists: art is not what you think it is, but art is what is about to happen. It’s consciousness and awareness.”
Cecilia Vicuña (born 1948) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview (2019)
“Art is an avenue to make thoughts into tangibles and ideas into realities. I close my eyes and I dream things that art help me birth. My desire is to make beautiful things that often times channel discussions and art most definitely helps me achieve this.”
Ndidi Dike (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can tell you this: Art can save your life. Art can absolutely save your life. I believe it from the bottom of my heart. But believe me when I tell you that entertainment will never be your salvation, alright. Art can save your life, but entertainment, entertainment by and large is escapism”
Josh Johnson (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Looking at man and looking at art, we must focus our eyes on their “belonging together”, because isolating man from his spiritual expression means reducing him to the condition of an animal, just as isolating art from man means making it twirl in the realm of the spirit, forgetting the material depth in which art, like man, takes shape and form. (p. 140)”
Umberto Galimberti (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The market was flooded with art historians. I wanted to generate new information on a virgin area,so I enrolled for another masters in rock art studies at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.That degree marked my shift from art history to archaeology.”
Catherine Namono wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Piety in art—poetry in art—Puseyism in art—let us be careful how we confound them.”
Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860) said by 1860 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is an African art of living, an art of solidarity, an art of otherness, of openness to others that Europeans no longer find in their own societies.”
Joseph Ki-Zerbo (1922–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am great at organising art events and have to my credit numerous art exhibitions and competitions. Several fund raising activities with art as a fund raising tool, few of which are listed below.”
Olusegun Adejumo (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My mind and my art they art together, but my life and my art is different”
Joël Andrianomearisoa (born 1977) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dak’Art 2014 Interview with Joël Andrianomearisoa
“The more people you can get interested in art, the better. An art critic recently wrote in one of the newspapers that we should remember that the [2010] World Cup would be over in a month. There must be other reasons why people might want to walk around a stadium or along the [Sea Point] promenade. It's an investment in art and landscaping which bring people to a city.”
Strijdom van der Merwe (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do I consider my work to be specifically African art? Well yes... because I was born and brought up in Africa. I eat African food, drink African water, and you know, these are the things that made up who I am today. So basically my art is African art.”
Oluwole Omofemi wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The khalifa said to Laila ‘Art thou really she For whom Majnun lost his head and went distracted? Thou art not fairer than many other fair ones.’ She replied, ‘Be silent; thou art not Majnun! If thou hadst Majnun’s eyes, The two world’s would be within thy view.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?”
Edith Wharton (misattributed) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nadine Gordimer, "The Essential Gesture: Writers and Responsibility", The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, University of Michigan (12 October 1984), p. 9
“The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.”
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: National Music (1934) p. 123.
“The true test of all the arts, is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind.”
Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) said by 1792 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a "message", but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works of art, not necessarily in the cinema, but in the other arts as well, which have an encyclopaedic world.”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“La géométrie est aux arts plastiques ce que la grammaire est à l'art de l'écrivain.”
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Les peintres cubistes (1913), reprinted in Oeuvres en prose complètes (Paris: Gallimard, 1991) vol. 2, p. 11; translation from Lionel Abel (trans.) The Cubist Painters (New York: Wittenborn, 1949) p. 13.
“Burke said with a depth that it is impossible to admire enough that art is man’s nature: yes, undoubtedly, man with all his affections, all his knowledge, all his arts, is truly the man of nature, and the weaver’s web is as natural as the spider’s.”
Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821) said by 1821 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A world that is faithless would not be without the arts, either. Those don’t rest on faith, so imaginative art, literature, and music would still be with us. Too, we would retain justice, law, and compassion, perhaps in even greater measure than now, for our judgment wouldn’t be warped by adherence to unevidenced divine strictures.”
Jerry Coyne (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it.”
Hannah More (1745–1833) said by 1833 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.”
Marcus Aurelius (121–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.”
Marcus Aurelius (121–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.”
Carl Jung (1875–1961) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Modern Man in Search of a Soul. Section - The Stages of Life (1933)
“The concrete man has but one interest — to be right. That to him is the art of all arts, and all means are fair which help him to it.”
William James (1842–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand, treats man as garbage — and his children, and his cities, too. Military science is probably right about the contemptibility of man in the vastness of the universe. Still — I deny that contemptibility, and I beg you to deny it, through the creation of appreciation of art.”
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know when it's the best I can do. It may not be the best there is. Another writer may do it much better. But I know when it’s the best I can do. I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, No. No, I’m finished. Bye. And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won’t do that.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.”
George Moore (novelist) first seen 1891 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Impressions and Opinions (1891): "Mummer-Worship".
“My art, science fiction writing, is pretty new as literary arts go, but it labors under the curse of three thousand years of literacy. In some weird sense I'm in direct competition with Homer and Euripides.”
Bruce Sterling (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People have always needed art: but why have they needed it? And what shaped the forms by which they satisfied their need? … In the arts form tends to be conservative, and content to be revolutionary; it is novelty of content that precedes, demands and imposes novelty of form.”
Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Review of The Necessity of Art (1959) by Ernest Fischer
“Dadaism has launched an attack on the fine arts. It has declared art to be a magic opening of the bowels, administered an enema to the Venus of Milo, and finally enabled 'Laocoon and Sons' to ease themselves after a thousand-year struggle with the rattlesnake. Dadaism has reduced positive and negative to utter nonsense. It has been destructive in order to achieve indifference.”
Jean Arp (1886–1966) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Isms in Art, (Hans Arp and El Lissitzky, The isms of art, 1924), published in 1925
“Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts.”
Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.”
José Martí (1853–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I (Yo soy un hombre sincero) as translated by Esther Allen in José Martí : Selected Writings (2002), p. 273
“Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.”
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767–1794) first seen 1793 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Discours sur la Constitution à donner à la France, speech to the National Convention (April 24, 1793).
“The operation of the imagination in life is more significant than its operation in or in relation to works of art... in life what is important is the truth as it is, while in arts and letters what is important is truth as we see it.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.”
William Morris (1834–1896) first seen 1883 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Art Under Plutocracy" (1883)
“Science and the arts shared the same language at the Restoration. They no longer seem to do so today. But the reason is that they share the same silence: they lack the same language. And it is the business of each of us to make that one universal language which alone can unite art and science, and layman and scientist, in a common understanding.”
Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In old days the plastic arts, music, and poesy were so germane to man in his totality that his Transcendence plainly manifest in them. ... What is to-day obvious to all is a decay in the essence of art. ... the opposition to man's true nature as man.”
Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The art most significantly affected by radio was music, since it was abolished the acoustic or mechanical limitations on the range of sounds. Music, the last of the arts to break out of the bodily prison that confines oral communication, had already entered the era of mechanical production before 1914 with the gramophone, although this was hardly yet within reach of the masses”
Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Arts 1914-1945
“[...] we very much praise this art [riding] because a healthy man, with strong will, if he does nor get fat, is able to keep his skill as he ages, which does not happen with most arts.”
Bem Cavalgar (1391–1438) said by 1438 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.”
Paul Klee (1879–1940) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Klee (Munich, c. 1910); as cited by Gualtieri Di San Lazzaro, Klee, Praeger, New York, 1957, p. 16
“I have taught – until 10 years ago – for nearly 40 years, that is almost half of my life. And when I think that over – now afterwards -, I come to a surprising conclusion, namely that I did not teach arts as such, but philosophy and psychology of art.”
Josef Albers (1888–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1876–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In previous conditions, extreme states came under the jurisdiction of the arts... People substituted writing (fiction) for what was once spiritual life, poetry (chaotic words) for actual ecstasies. Art constitutes a minor free zone outside action, paying for its freedom by giving up the real world. A heavy price!”
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On the whole, a man who denies the existence of the effects arranged according to the causes in the question of arts, or whose wisdom cannot understand it, then he has no knowledge of the art of its Maker.”
Averroes (1126–1198) said by 1198 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The ultimate impact of the liberal arts on the art of management, then, is a major contribution to the evolution of an ethical and humanistic capitalism -- a system that stimulates innovation, fosters excellence, enriches society, and dignifies work.”
Roger Smith (executive) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As cited in: G. Page West, Elizabeth J. Gatewood, Kelly G. Shaver (2009) Handbook of University-wide Entrepreneurship Education. p. 225.
“The world of art was less fortunate. Many of the younger men barely lived through the first flush of youth. Destroying Death is the worst enemy to the arts.”
Wynford Dewhurst (1864–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fist methods do not seem to concern themselves with the arts of great warfare; nevertheless, to move the hands and feet actively and to work habitually the limbs and body constitutes the gateway to beginning study and entering the art.”
Qi Jiguang (1528–1588) said by 1588 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chapter 14: The Chapter on the Fist Canon and the Essentials of Nimbleness; as translated by Clifford Michael Gyves (1993)
“Commerce is the mother of the arts, the sciences, the professions, and in this twentieth century has itself become an art, a science, a profession.”
Harry Gordon Selfridge (1858–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“if I had to explain it I would say that my work is about my life and community. Therefore it is seated on a foundation of Black Art traditions. Through a colored lens that may include quilt making, gardening, cooking, interior design, fashion, the healing arts, and spirituality.”
Ekua Holmes (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Singing, dancing, art, fashion design and make-up; I want it to be as diverse as possible. I hope to see the creative arts as a contributor to our nation’s GDP.”
Sadi Dikgaka wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source