Browsing Quotes With Tag: art (11)
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A widely held opinion in the aesthetic community insists an artist is more credible if he doesn’t consider his audience during the creative process; the philosophy suggests that a true artists has to make his art for personal reasons, regardless of whether or not people like it (or even want it). That’s plainly stupid, and Bon Jovi knew it. Art is not intrinsic to the universe; art is a human construction. If you killed off all the world’s people, you would kill off all the art. The only thing important about art is how it affects people. It only needs to affect one person to be interesting, but it has to affect many people to be important.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Fargo Rock CityPosted: 08 Nov 2009 at 8:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I didn’t care about Saved by the Bell any more than I cared about the X-Files, but the difference is that I could watch Saved by the Bell without caring and still have it become a minor part of my life, which is the most transcendent thing any kind of art can accomplish (regardless of its technical merits).
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 19 Sep 2009 at 4:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Human longing! We cannot cease desiring, and this is our glory, and our doom. Desire! it carries us and crucifies us, delivers us every new day to a battlefield where, on the ever, the battle was lost; but in sunlight does it not look like a territory ripe for conquest, a place where – even though tomorrow we will die – we can build empires doomed to fade to dust, as if the knowledge we have of their imminent fall had absolutely no effect on our eagerness to build them now? We are filled with the energy of constantly wanting that which we cannot have, we are abandoned at dawn on a field littered with corpses, we are transported until our death by projects that are no sooner completed than they must be renewed. Yet how exhausting it is to be constantly desiring… We soon aspire to pleasure without the quest, to a blissful state without beginning or end, where beauty would no longer be an aim or a project but the very proof of our nature. And that state is Art.
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 25 Jun 2009 at 8:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What is the purpose of Art? To give us the brief, dazzling illusion of the camellia, carving from time an emotional aperture that cannot be reduced to animal logic. How is Art born? It is begotten in the mind’s ability to sculpt the sensorial domain. What does Art do for us? It gives shape to our emotions, makes them visible and, in so doing, places a seal of eternity upon them, a seal representing all those works that, by means of a particular form, have incarnated the universal nature of human emotions.
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 25 Jun 2009 at 7:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes — ah, that is where the art resides.
Speaker: Artur SchnabelPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times. Rodin died about the time the world started flipping its lid. His successors notes the amazing things he had done with light and shadow and mass and composition and they copied that part. What they failed to see was that the master told stories that laid bare the human heart. They became contemptuous of painting or sculpture that told stories – they dubbed such work 'literary.’ They went all out for abstractions.”
Jubal shrugged. “Abstract design is all right – for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity and terror. What modern artists do is psuedo-intellectual masturbation. Creative art is intercourse, in which the artist renders emotional his audience. These laddies who won’t deign to do that – or can’t – lost the public.”Speaker: Robert HeinleinPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 11:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“An artist can see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl she used to be. A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is… and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be… more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart… no matter what the merciless hours have done. Look at her, Ben.”
Speaker: Robert HeinleinPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 11:56 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Avoiding a fault will lead to error if art is missing.
Speaker: HoracePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If someone were to apply exquisitely beautiful colors at random he would find less pleasure than if he had outlined an image in black and white.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
Speaker: Emile ChartierPosted: 28 Nov 2007 at 10:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Design is about getting the right idea, and getting the idea right.
Speaker: Marty NeumeierPosted: 28 Nov 2007 at 10:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!