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“One doesn't look at the quality of work, they see how much it fetches, how it earns. That's a sad thing. Money is not the criteria of art. Art or love is not a question of money. One should perceive these things at a different level.”
S. H. Raza (1922–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Young painters are amazingly involved in their own research and are coming into their own personal perceptions. There is great hope for the future of art here. We will be the most vital art expression in the world.”
S. H. Raza (1922–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The art of agriculture is the realization of some ideal object. lie who practises it has received from others, without considering the reasons on which it is founded, the idea or rule by which he proceeds. The skilful practice of an art consists, therefore, in the adoption of new ideas, in the study of new rules, and in judging the fitness of their being carried into practice.”
Albrecht Thaer (1752–1828) said by 1828 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am a -living shadow and Thou the Truth... Therefore, my God, Thou art alike shadow and Truth; Thou art alike the image and the Exemplar of myself and all men.”
Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) said by 1464 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The relationship of art and play: to play is art - consequently I play. I play enraged.”
Jean Tinguely (1925–1991) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jean Tinguely (1959), quoted in: ACM multimedia 2000: proceedings. ACM. Special Interest Group on Multimedia (2000). p. 19.
“While politics is the art of the possible, history is the art of the impossible. I have never hesitated in attempting the impossible. What is historically relevant may not be politically prudent. One has to make one’s choices.”
V. P. Singh (1931–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands before them. They seem to be as inexhaustible and unpredictable as real human beings.”
Ernst Gombrich (1909–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That is, art is not the cancelling of the actual and imperfect, and the putting in its place of a vague and fanciful perfection that is only an illusory abstraction after all; it is the transfiguring of the actual by the ideal that is actually immanent in it. The actual hides in itself an ideal that is its true reality and destination, and this hidden ideal it is the function of art to reveal.”
George Holmes Howison (1834–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where obscenity and art are mixed art must be so preponderating as to throw the obscenity into shadow.”
Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think classical music is a great, beautiful art as long as people recognize it. But first we need to calm down and listen to it with heart. In this technologically advanced time, too many things are drawing peoples' attention. Sometimes we need to slow down, look back and feel the beauty of art and life.”
Lang Lang (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The art of teaching is also to know when to stop. It is good when people want to be better, physically, morally, spiritually, intellectually. But a fashion? No! Yoga is a painful art. It’s not like dance or music, where the person watching gets pleasure. Only the person doing it finds joy. It has nothing to do with externals.”
B. K. S. Iyengar (1918–2014) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "BKS Iyengar – obituary", The Telegraph (20 August 2014)
“Our goal should not be to borrow from elsewhere, but to search among our own cultural resources, perhaps even in modern science and industrialism, for ways to restore art to the status it has always held in traditional societies as a form of knowledge. ...art adds to what we learn from any combination of physics, biology, geology, and chemistry. It tells us the world is... deserving of reverence.”
Theodore Roszak (scholar) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: with Betty Roszak, "Deep Form in Art and Nature" Alexandria 4, Vol.4 The Order of Beauty and Nature (1997) ed. David Fideler
“The first major discovery of prehistoric art was the Spanish cave of Altamira, which, like Lascaux, is one of the most spectacular examples of Upper Paleolithic art yet known.”
Richard Leakey (1944–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The question... is whether Upper Paleolithic art bears the telltale signs of Lewis-Williams' three stage neuropsychological model, and could thus be shamanistic art.”
Richard Leakey (1944–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art is a weapon and the weapons can change the world. Good art is irreverent, excessive, controversial, incorrect, irritating, ironic, bad behaving, playful and beautiful or ugly.”
Riiko Sakkinen (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Considering how few, and how simple the Principles are, upon which the whole Art of PERSPECTIVE depends, and withal how useful, nay how absolutely necessary this Art is to all forts of Designing; I have often wonder'd, that it has still been left in so low a degree of Perfection, as it is found to be, in the Books that have been hitherto wrote upon it.”
Brook Taylor (1685–1732) said by 1732 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The best art, and the only art which will ever lead to great results, must have for its basis the interpretation of beauty in nature.”
Ernest Flagg (1857–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This dialogue between the ongoing research in brain science and art continue to this day. ...Such dialogues could help us explore the mechanisms in the brain that make perception and creativity possible, whether in art, the sciences, the humanities, or everyday life. In a larger sense, this dialogue could help make science part of our everyday experience.”
Eric Kandel (born 1929) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Vienna School of Art History, influenced in part by Sigmund Freud's psychological work, began to develop a science-based psychology of art that was initially focused on the beholder. Today, the new science of mind has... again focused on the beholder.”
Eric Kandel (born 1929) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science may explain aspects of art but it will not replace the inspiration that art evokes...”
Eric Kandel (born 1929) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Conceptual Art in the broadest sense was a kind of laboratory for innovations in the rest of the century. An unconscious international energy emerged from the raw materials of friendship, art history, interdisciplinary readings and a fervor to change the world and the ways artists related to it.”
Lucy R. Lippard (born 1937) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote in: Ken Johnsonoct. "Planter of the Seeds Of Mind-Expanding Conceptualism." in New York Times, Oct. 18, 2012.
“I agree with Rosenberg’s text that says anything is art as soon as it is put in a museum. And that is why artists are such appalling things, since they are responsible for this state of affairs in art.”
Daniel Buren (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If one wanted to make a work of art devoid of meaning, it would be impossible because we’ve already given meaning to the work by indicating that it’s a work of art.”
Joseph Kosuth (born 1945) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Joseph Kosuth, “Introduction” in Art After Philosophy and After: Collected Writings, 1960–1990 (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991); cited in: Thierry Mortier. "Semiotics as Art: Kosuth," Sunday, 1 July 2012.
“Art to me is a humanitarian act, and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to affect mankind, to make the word a better place (this is not a cliche!).”
Jeff Koons (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For me sculpture is divinity. This is the only answer that I could find for myself. Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death. Through art, man achieves immortality and in this immortality we find God.”
Jacques Lipchitz (1891–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I chose to paint because the medium as such has a particular meaning. It is almost synonymous with what is popularly viewed as Art - art with a capital A-with all the glory, the piety, and the authority that it commands.”
Hans Haacke (born 1936) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Bois,Yve-Alain, Douglas Crimp, and Rosalind Krauss. "A Conversation with Hans Haacke." in: October : The First Decade 30 (fall 1984): 23-48
“When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that...”
Hans Haacke (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's a crisis of ideas in art, which is felt by many, many people. Not only in art: in social thinking, in politics. That's one of the other things about this poll, one of the attempts to get out of this, by some maybe funny means — humor helps — because we really don't know where to go. and what our next step has to be. Artists now.”
Alexander Melamid (born 1945) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vitaly Komar, ‎Aleksandr Melamid, ‎JoAnn Wypijewski (1997). Painting by Numbers: Komar and Melamid's Scientific Guide to Art p. 16
“Unless the world is substantially altered for the worst, the logical outcome of technology's influence on art before the end of this century should be a series of art forms that manifest true intelligence, but perhaps more meaningfully, with a capacity for reciprocal relationships with human beings.”
Jack Burnham (1931–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cybernated art is very important, but art for cybernated life is”
Nam June Paik (1932–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Purge the world of bourgeois sickness, ‘intellectual’, professional & commercialized culture ... PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART, ... promote NON ART REALITY to be grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals ... FUSE the cadres of cultural, social & political revolutionaries into united front & action.”
George Maciunas (1931–1978) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Maciunas (1963), Fluxus Manifesto, copies of which were thrown into the audience at the Festum Fluxorum Fluxus, Düsseldorf, February 1963.
“Recognition that art was located in an interactive system rather than residing in a material object... provid[ed] a discipline as central to an art of interactivity as anatomy and perspective had been to the renaissance vision.”
Roy Ascott (born 1934) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interactive Art,” unpublished manuscript, 1994, p. 3; as cited in: Edward A. Shanken. "Cybernetics and Art: Cultural Convergence in the 1960s." 2002
“Art is Life, Life is Art.”
Wolf Vostell (1932–1998) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wolf Vostell (1961), cited in: Cultures, Vol. 5. (1978), p. 142
“What can art accomplish? The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.”
Svetlana Alexievich (born 1948) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the Nobel Banquet (10 December 2015)
“A work of art is a work of art, and nothing else, personal considerations count for nothing.”
Roger Fry (1866–1934) said by 1934 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: E M Forster -0bituary of Roger Fry ,1940 ,'Biography of RogerFry'by Virginia Wolf , Harcourt, Brace and Co, New York 1940.
“It was inevitable that artists should turn around and question the validity of the fundamental assumption that art aimed at representation; and the moment the question was fairly posed it became clear the pseudo scientific assumption that fidelity to appearance was the measure of art had no logical foundation.”
Roger Fry (1866–1934) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lecture to Fabian Soiety 1917 Art and Life from Vision and design by Roger Fry , Forgotten Books , 2012
“Only today can art be metaphysical, and it will continue to be so. Art will free itself from the needs and desires of men. We will no longer paint a forest or a horse as we please or as they seem to us, but as they really are.”
Franz Marc (1880–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe the art of the future including poetry will be simple, fresh and strongly coloured and will be understood and loved by the ignorant as well as the most cultivated. A popular art in the finest sense of the word.”
Max Michelson (1880–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Negro art contains more ideas than Greek art. Its strange inventiveness of form is astonishing, and its imagination and extraordinary sense of decoration are difficult to explain. We dare not take such liberties; but the Negroes have succeeded. We are too much the subjects of our own past..”
Aristide Maillol (1861–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Classic art was like a king who has the right to govern, punish, reward, and choose his favorites from an aristocracy, obliging them to adopt conventional rules as to manners, morals, and modes of speech. The new art tries to imitate nature in its unconsciousness, its moral indifference.”
Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé (1848–1910) first seen 1887 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Russian Novelists (1887), page 10 (translated by Jane Loring Edmands)
“For me personally, the greatest art to date has been created in New York and the most uptight and conventional art in Berlin. Obviously, I am an exception to this rule! [living and working in Berlin]”
Isa Genzken (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Artists should not look to the left or the right. Art should be strong and nonconformist—and most importantly, art should always be personal.”
Isa Genzken (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The ‘spirituality’ of this art, in which scholars have tried to find all the essentials of the later medieval conceptions of art, is in reality only the same indefinite sort of spirituality which inspired the last centuries of paganism.”
Arnold Hauser (art historian) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Early Christian art during the first two or three centuries of its existence was merely a development or even a variant of late Roman art. So great is the similarity between late pagan and early Christian work that the decisive change of style must have occurred between the classical and post-classical, not between the pagan and Christian eras.”
Arnold Hauser (art historian) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art, it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.”
Margaret Keane (1927–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It does not make such a difference whether you are simply mute or employ no art for speaking. For it is not feasible that you can express what you think as it should be understood unless you acquire and strengthen the ability to speak by art.”
Philip Melanchthon (1497–1560) said by 1560 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A novel?” André laughed. “The novel’s dead—don’t waste your time. The novel takes a small—oh, infinitely small—cut-and-dried section of so-called reality and calls it art. Your life is art. Don’t waste it trying to write a novel.”
Lisa Goldstein (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Maybe art couldn’t survive it if was sponsored by the government. Maybe art always had to be subversive.”
Lisa Goldstein (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But who art thou? that Voyce, and beauteous Face, Not Mortal is; thou art of Heavenly Race.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) said by 1676 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Masses marked, I have been told, the first appearance of "realism" in an American magazine. But I was ignorant of, and indifferent to, schools of art and literature. Of the new movement in art represented by John Sloan, George Bellows, and the other pupils of Robert Henri, I had never heard.”
Max Eastman (1883–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source