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“The art of the creative leader is the art of institution building, the reworking of human and technological materials to fashion an organism that embodies new and enduring values.”
Philip Selznick (1919–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The art of marketing is largely the art of brand building. When something is not a brand, it will be probably be viewed as a commodity.”
Philip Kotler (born 1931) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Philip Kotler (1999), as cited in: Dennis Adcock, ‎Al Halborg, ‎Caroline Ross (2001), Marketing: Principles and Practice. p. 208
“Is marketing management an art or a science? Some marketing observers maintain that good marketing is more of an art and does not lend itself to rigorous analysis and deliberation. Others strongly disagree and contend that marketing management is a highly disciplined enterprise that has much in common with other business disciplines.”
Philip Kotler (born 1931) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Philip Kotler, Kevin Lane Keller, Mairead Brady, Malcolm Goodman & Torben Hansen. (2009). Marketing Management. p. 819
Also quoted by: Kevin Lane Keller
“At the present time administration is more an art than a science; in fact there are those who assert dogmatically that it can never be anything else. They draw no hope from the fact that metallurgy, for example, was completely an art several centuries before it became primarily a science and commenced its great forward strides after generations of intermittent advance and decline.”
Lyndall Urwick (1891–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 189; cited in: W. Bartley Hildreth et al. (eds.), Handbook of Public Administration, Second Edition,1997, p. 754
Also quoted by: Luther H. Gulick
“If it is asked why Socrates permits certain forms of art to be retained in the ideal state instead of consistently banishing all alike, the answer is surely obvious: these are, in the opinion of Socrates, the forms which art will take in the hands of men who understand its true nature.”
R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: R. G. Collingwood (1925). "Plato’s philosophy of art." In: Mind. Vaduz, vol. XXXIV, pp.156-7
“Not only was [Fascist] Italy the first Western country to recognize the Soviet Union in 1924, but the new Soviet art first appeared in the West that year at the Venice Biennale, Italy's premiere art show.”
Stanley G. Payne (born 1934) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.”
Robert Henri (1865–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[About Yayoi Kusama:] Classifying her work as 'art brut' is simplistic and unfair. For me she represents the history of womankind. A sexually violated, politically annihilated, socially ignored and emotionally deprived feminine life. One of her works is entitled Self Obliteration, which seems to sum up a woman's utter despair, in life, in art, in anything real in the human world.”
Xiaolu Guo (born 1973) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Radical: A Life of My Own, Chatto & Windus, 2023, page 302 (ISBN 9781784744861).
“They [the Paris art-critics] wish to force me into their drawing-room art, to break my spirit. No, no! I was born as a peasant and a peasant I will die. I say what I feel. I paint things as I see them, and I will hold my ground without retreating one sabot; if necessary, I will fight for honour.”
Jean-François Millet (1814–1875) first seen 1859 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote from his letter, March 1859; as quoted by Arthur Hoeber in The Barbizon Painters – being the story of the Men of thirty – associate of the National Academy of Design; publishers, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New Y…
“What has art to do with those things [Revolution, socialism]? Art will never come except from some little disregarded corner where some isolated man is studying the mysteries of nature, fully assured that the answer which he ﬁnds and which is good for him is good also for humanity, whatever may be the number of succeeding generations.”
Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867) said by 1867 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dada hurts. Dada does not jest, for the reason that it was experienced by revolutionary men and not by philistines who demand that art be a decoration for the mendacity of their own emotions.. .I am firmly convinced that all art will become dadaistic in the course of time, because from Dada proceeds the perpetual urge for its renovation.”
Richard Huelsenbeck (1892–1974) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Huelsenbeck, in 'Dada Lives', Transition no. 25 (Autumn 1936), as cited in The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology, ed. Robert Motherwell (1951)
“Art in an abstract setting is one thing, but art where you’re actually telling people to do things becomes dangerous…”
Amiri Baraka (1934–2014) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On how art might turn “dangerous” if it becomes too political in “In Memoriam: An Interview with the Late Amiri Baraka” in Sampsonia Way (January 10, 2014)
“Well,When I started my "Invasions," the word "street art" did not even exist yet! Now "Street Art" is a Pivotal moment”
Invader (artist) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: http://www.complex.com/style/2014/07/space-invader-interview
“I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his [Degas'] art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.”
Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) first seen 1875 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote, c. 1875; as cited by Nancy Mowll Mathews, in Mary Cassatt: A Life, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1998, p. 114 - ISBN 978-0-585-36794-1
“When the first alien spacecraft lands in Washington, I want the little green people to walk first into the National Gallery of Art. I want our art to explain who and what we are before our leaders do.”
Bran Ferren (born 1953) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The New York Times Magazine, The Creators, 1999
“Opponents of the New Art fall back on this calculation, rejecting its self-sufficient meaning and, having declared it 'Transitional,' being unable even to understand properly the conception of this Art, lumping together Cubism, Futurism, and other phenomena of artistic life, not ascertaining for themselves either their essential differences or the shared tenets that link them.”
Olga Rozanova (1886–1918) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Olga Rozanova, in 'Osnovy Novogo Tvorchestva i printsipy ego neponimaniia,' Soiuz molodezhi 3 (March 1913), p. 18; as quoted by Svetlana Dzhafarova, in The great Utopia - The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932 (t…
“Stealing is really an art, a dangerous, risky art, though.”
Gaurav Sharma (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess. We must condemn once and for all the formula "chess for the sake of chess", like the formula "art for art's sake". We must organize shockbrigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a Five-Year Plan for chess.”
Nikolai Krylenko (1885–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The war [World War 1] gave me a certainty of belief. I grew aware of the bankruptcy of theories, of the theories of intellectuals as well as artists. L'art pour l'art and other grave problems no longer gave me a headache; they seemed to me so much bosh hand interested me as little as platonic love.”
Maurice de Vlaminck (1876–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't believe in Jewish art. There are Jewish artists, which means, artists who are born Jewish, but that does not mean that their work is Jewish art. (translation from Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)”
Jozef Israëls (1824–1911) first seen 1824 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Jozef Israëls, 9 July 1907, translated from his letter (written in German) to the committee of the Exhibition for Jewish Art in Berlin; as cited in Jozef Israëls, 1824 – 1911, ed. Dieuwertje Dekkers; Waanders, …
“Art is about collecting experiences and expressing them. For me music and photography are similar art forms. I collect experiences, stir them in myself and express it in my own language. Just like my photography, music is my language.”
TY Bello (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art is necessary in order that man should be able to recognize and change the world. But art is also necessary by virtue of the magic inherent in it.”
Ernst Fischer (writer) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Necessity of Art: A Marxist Approach (1965), , translated by Anna Bostock.
“Politics are politics and art is art. If (Mainland) China restricts its artists and film workers from coming to Taiwan to take part in this grand occasion for the Chinese-speaking world's film industry, then of course it is not Taiwan's loss.”
Kolas Yotaka (born 1974) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kolas Yotaka (2019) cited in "China will 'lose' by boycotting Golden Horse Awards: Taiwan" on Focus Taiwan, 7 August 2019.
“Once again I talked with some painters, but the modern artists [in The Netherlands ] write more than they paint. If you write about art in such a way and you want to paint always with a fixed plan, then you will lose completely the deep, glorious and spontaneous art. You always have to create the new from the very deep, inside. (translation from German, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)”
Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876–1923) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in a letter to Herwarth Walden, 23 July 1915; the 'Sturm'-Archive, Berlin; as cited in 'Sturm edition', Abteilung 1. Briefe
“Technique without art is shallow and doomed. Art without technique is insulting.”
Dorothy Alexander (1904–1986) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoting Alexander's Christmas message to her dance students, 1939.
“Art has come to be regarded as a form of amusement which can only be indulged in by men of great wealth....Thus art which is the soul of every democracy finds no place in the workaday existence”
Andrew MacLaren (1883–1975) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Scottish Co-operator in July 1913
“I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. Freedom of expression, for me, consists in moving within a measured range that I assign to each of my undertakings. How instructive it is to remember Leonardo da Vinci's counsel that "strength is born of constraint and dies from freedom.”
I. M. Pei (1917–2019) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Acceptance speech for the The Pritzker Architecture Prize (16 May 1983), quoted in The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1983: Presented to Ieoh Ming Pei (1983)
“Art is nothing abstract, theoretical. We cannot detach it or set it apart. Art must live, and I want to be the intermediary of life.”
Lubo Kristek (born 1943) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote in an interview by Sven Mueller, published in 'Das kunstvolle Leben des Bildhauers: Lubo Kristek', Collage: Zeitschrift für Literatur und Grafik 3, p. 33. Translated in Kristek Thaya Glyptotheque, Barbora Putova; …
“I do believe that our lives and our art go together. Who I am and what I write are the same...I feel that the writing process doesn't just begin when you are putting words on paper. It begins in the living that you do before, and I feel powerful enough now so that I can set up my daily living circumstances in order to support me and support my art.”
Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our class and our generation really shifted Native art, in the contemporary world art scene.”
Joy Harjo (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Making art, any art, you are in some way trying to imitate life, and the ways in which that succeeds or fails is fascinating to me…”
Naomi Iizuka (born 1956) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On art versus life in “Berkeley world premiere for Naomi Iizuka play” in SF Gate (2010 Mar 4)
“The hardest thing these days is to make something that’s beautiful; it’s easy to make ugly art. I think it takes a lot more talent to make something beautiful. Beauty to me is when you show something to someone that they’ve never seen before. That’s what a great work of art does; it shows you something that you didn’t know existed.”
Gronk (artist) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On making beautiful artwork in “Gronk by Marisela Norte” in BOMB Magazine (2007 Jan 1)
“…I realized that what I had been watching was a fairly remarkable hybrid storytelling form: part live theatrical event, part polished television production, part sports spectacular, part collaborative improvised dance — and so much more. It’s a art form that synthesizes tons of other art forms into what appears to be simple, mindless entertainment, and it’s fascinating…”
Kristoffer Diaz first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On his first love of professional wrestling in “BWW Interview: Acclaimed Playwright Luis Alfaro of OEDIPUS EL REY at Magic Theatre Talks about His Path & the Role of the Artist in Creating Change” in Breaking Character …
“I used to think that I somehow existed apart from making art and thus my work itself existed outside prevailing realities, uninfluenced by circumstance. I was wrong and that's clear to me now. Biography and art intertwine, strangling and oxygenating simultaneously.”
Brian Clarke (1953–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My art is an art for the working class.”
Brian Clarke (1953–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Il faut de la religion pour la religion, de la morale pour la morale, comme de l'art pour l'art...le beau ne peut être la voie ni de l'utile, ni du bien, ni du saint; il ne conduit qu'à lui-même.”
Victor Cousin (1792–1867) first seen 1818 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Du Vrai, du beau, et du bien (Sorbonne lecture, 1818); Cours de philosophie professé à la faculté des lettres pendant l'année 1818 (Paris, 1836) pp. 224–25
“(Said in the context of semi-abstract art) Every time I look at a work of art, however good or bad, I always begin with the principle of "graceful acceptance." You always get so much more that way.”
Robin Saikia (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.”
Fannie Hurst (1889–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art is always made against the backdrop of politics. Artists think historically. They think about the history of art, the history of their medium, they think about their personal history. Politicians should do more of that. At the current moment it seems that the aesthetics and artistry within how each political party or ideology is presented is vigorously critiqued.”
An-My Lê (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Children should have healthy artistic accomplishments and a good taste for literature and art. Things like elegant music, art and literature can play an important role in cultivating children's temperament, helping children to resist those unhealthy and harmful things and develop beautiful and noble sentiments.”
Soong Ching-ling (1893–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Human life -- ah! life in general -- is poetry. Unconscious of ourselves, we live it -- day by day and piece by piece -- but in its inviolable wholeness it lives, it composes, us. Far from the old phrase: "turn your life into a work of art"; we are not our art work.”
Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Opening epigraph; translation by Frank Beck, 2015
“In my analysis of the art discourse emerging from the cross-section revealing the interlacement of patriarchal power and knowledge, I was greatly influenced by Valéria Dienes’s feminist writings, who could reconcile her thoughts on psychology, philosophy, and semiotics with the choreography of the art of movement – i.e., the mind with the body, and knowledge with feelings.”
Orshi Drozdik (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Despite and along with this, censored feminism and the art of new dance, the movement art that pleaded the “divine” body resonated in me when I contrasted the experiences of my “bodily existence” with traditional and patriarchal representation of the woman’s body.”
Orshi Drozdik (born 1946) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The statement was written by the artist (2021).
“Folklore is a true and unguarded portrait, for where art may be selective, may conceal, may gloss over defects and even prettify, folk art is always revealing, always truthful in the sense that it is spontaneous expression.”
Nathan Ausubel (1898–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The problem is that Hollywood is competition for Chinese art films. So I thought I should make a film with box office promise, that refers to Chinese culture, but also contains an art element.”
Zhang Yimou (born 1950) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fighting for Peace (and Art Films), Zhang Yimou on “Hero”" in Indie Wire (27 August 2004)
“The task of artists – members of the Party – is to be real workers in art and not professional handicraftsmen. We must not forget that workers in the sphere of art can only achieve success if they express the strivings of the people.”
Kyūichi Tokuda (1894–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There have been many times in my life when I’ve chosen art over people, but like my mom, I thought it was a choice. I think that’s a very romantic notion and it’s a good notion to put in books, but it’s not a good one to live by. I think seeing people does broaden your world a lot and art will come back when it’s ready. Even if you walk away from it for a minute.”
Liana Finck (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think that’s the thing that happens in my life that is closest to art and so I tend to make art about it. I also really love nostalgic writers. Two of my favorite writers are Proust and Nabokov, who are all about lost childhoods and loves that could have been.”
Liana Finck (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sue me, but I just don't see any need to be this artsy-fartsy.” “I’m trying to create a work of art, damn it!” said Page, exasperated. “Works of art appeal to the masses, Nate; they don't hold them in contempt or try to drive them away.”
Mike Resnick (1942–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everyone has an urge to create. Its expression may flow through many channels: through writing, art or music, through the inventiveness of work or in any number of ways unique to all of us, whether it be cooking, gardening or the art of social discourse. The point is to honour the urge. To do so is healing for ourselves and for others; not to do so deadens our bodies and our spirits. (p280)”
Gabor Maté (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source