Zitat des Tages über Kunst / Art:
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.
Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
It will always take a certain audacity to write or to make art of any kind.
The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy.
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.
I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
Art is a sense of magic.
I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.
Even the Impressionists, the most innovative artists of their time, sought to paint realistically. They believed that their freer way of portraying the visible world was truer to life than the literal realism of the 'salon painters' who dominated French art throughout the 19th century.
We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them.
Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.
It's always been performance art, but now it's on a different level.
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in my suitcase and go. And I have so much because of that, because it's what I've always done to pass the time, and I like it.
Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.
My vision for G.O.O.D. Music is just carrying on with the tradition of putting out high-quality music, high-quality art. G.O.O.D. Music is entrenched in the culture of hip-hop. It's entrenched in the culture, period.
Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller.
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.