Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved"

Andre Malraux, Author

"The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself"

Andre Malraux, Author

"Art is a revolt against fate.All art is a revolt against man's fate"

Andre Malraux, Author

"An art book is a museum without walls"

Andre Malraux, Author

"Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only"

Andre Malraux, Author

"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, Designer

"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created"

William Morris, Designer

"The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand"

Willa Cather, Author

"The condition every art requires is not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter"

Willa Cather, Author

"As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us"

Kenneth Noland, Artist

"That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession"

Andre Breton, Poet

"Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist"

Kenneth Noland, Artist

"Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors"

Kenneth Noland, Artist

"With artists of my own generation, there was at first no group identity - and never a clique"

Kenneth Noland, Artist

"I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist"

Kenneth Noland, Artist

"Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time"

Kenneth Noland, Artist

"In the '50s, Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known"

Kenneth Noland, Artist

"Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter"

Kenneth Noland, Artist

"Because of this, the representation I'm interested in is of those things only the eye can touch"

Kenneth Noland, Artist

"If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure"

Doug Coupland, Author

"The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image"

Michelangelo, Artist

"The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all"

John Updike, Novelist

"The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"I saw the angel in the marble, and carved until I set him free"

Michelangelo, Artist

"I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint"

Michelangelo, Artist

"I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible"

Michelangelo, Artist

"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture"

Michelangelo, Artist

"Every block of stone has a statue inside it, and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it"

Michelangelo, Artist

"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come"

Michelangelo, Artist

"Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship"

John Milton, Poet

"What I'm good at is making art"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"Virtually always, I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there's an erotic aspect to that"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my work is legitimate art"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit"

John Updike, Novelist

"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist"

Novalis, Poet

"I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

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