All Quotes By Tag: Art
“When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn’t have mentors. We didn’t have parents. We were alone. But it was a great time, because we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain.”
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“The tea-master, Kobori-Enshiu, himself a daimyo, has left to us these memorable words: “Approach a great painting as thou wouldst approach a great prince.” In order to understand a masterpiece, you must lay yourself low before it and await with bated breath its least utterance. An eminent Sung critic once made a charming confession. Said he: “In my young days I praised the master whose pictures I liked, but as my judgement matured I praised myself for liking what the masters had chosen to have me like.”
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“she was completely wholeand yet never fully complete”
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“(Speaking of art):In leaving something unsaid the beholder is given a chance to complete the idea and thus a great masterpiece irresistably rivets your attention until you seem to become actually a part of it.”
“I’m pretty much looking for beauty all the time. It just seems like some days the light is better to see it.”
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“Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests”
“All beautiful distractions, ignites from you.”
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“Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and moral conviction, that first made the experience of living something that must be translated into pigment or music or bodily movement or poetry or prose or anything that’s dynamic and expressivee–that’s what’s good for you if you’re at all serious in your aims. William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!” That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.”
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“Imagination is Everything!”
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“You know how writers are… they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.”
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“The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.”
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“A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all.”
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“To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.”
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