Dumouchelle Art Quotes

My dad and I had a real meeting of the minds. We loved to talk about music, politics, and art. He loved children. The thing I missed most about my dad when he died was that this person who really gets who I am at the core was gone. ~ Rosanne Cash

Art starts alone - and convinces society later. ~ Douglas Davis

In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad. ~ Walter Darby Bannard

The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word clings to the idea and disappears, the more beautiful the work of art. ~ Gustave Flaubert

O, the breadth of the love of Christ! Shall such a love as this have half our hearts? Shall it have a cold love in return? Shall Jesus' marvellous lovingkindness and tender care meet with but faint response and tardy acknowledgment? O my soul, tune thy harp to a glad song of thanksgiving! Go to thy rest rejoicing, for thou art no desolate wanderer, but a beloved child, watched over, cared for, supplied, and defended by thy Lord. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We consume our art like moths. We gather, momentarily, around wherever the biggest, brightest light seems to be. So these days, the most successful art is the art that can elicit the quickest visceral reaction from the largest group of people. ~ Michael Gungor

I'm not one of those cool, creative kids in my art class who make skirts out of trash bags and paint in crazy colours. ~ Jenn Bennett

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art. ~ Charles Rosen

Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people. ~ Charles Ray

Art is the business of selling fetishes, sacred relics once touched by genius: what the forger offers the gullible buyer is not art, it is "authenticity ~ Frank Wynne

And art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony. ~ Victor Shklovsky

...if these hours be dark, as indeed in many ways they are, at least do not let us sit deedless, like fools and fine gentlemen, thinking the common toil not good enough for us, and beaten by the muddle; but rather let us work like good fellows trying by some dim candle-light to set our workshop ready against to-morrow's daylight... ~ William Morris

The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art. ~ Zaha Hadid

Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself. ~ Roberto Cavalli

I believe that some of my best images have [the] ambiguity which is an essence of life. In this sense I am not interested in trying desperately to make Art but I am interested in relating to the marvelous extravagance of Life. ~ John Gutmann

Aren't maids the ultimate art critics? ~ John Waters

It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can't be planned and it probably can't even be described. It's just good. ~ Gerhard Richter

What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art. ~ Wendy Carlos

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Originally, one of the reasons I was drawn to photography, as opposed to painting or sculpture or installation, is that of all the arts it is the most democratic, in so far as it's instantly readable and accessible to our culture. Photography is how we move information back and forth. ~ Gregory Crewdson

I love skating. I love the speed, the power, the excitement, the feeling that
even for just a moment
I can defy gravity and fly through the air. And I love the way that a great skating performance, like any work of art, can move an audience to laughter or tears. ~ Brian Boitano

I've always loved movies, art and clothes. ~ Colleen Atwood

Comic books themselves are getting more literate. And there are people who are screenwriters and television writers and novelists who are writing for the comics, for some reason, they love doing it and some of the art work in the comics, I mean it rivals anything you'll see hanging on the walls of museums, they're illustrations more than drawings and all the people are discovering this and they're turning on to it. ~ Stan Lee

Perhaps the only people with the right to look at images of suffering of this extreme order are those who could do something to alleviate it - say, the surgeons at the military hospital where the photograph was taken - or those who could learn from it. The rest of us are voyeurs, whether or not we mean to be. ~ Sontag, Susan

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art. ~ Walter Darby Bannard

The heart of [J.G.] Ballard's vision [is] the object at odds with its function and abandoned by its time. ~ Tacita Dean

If you want to look at a cheap shot, look at Mr. Koons's or Mr. Gober's art. By no definition is it art. ~ Morley Safer

Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can. ~ Kurt Schwitters

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out. ~ Ethel Barrymore

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust. ~ Alan Rickman

The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

Oh, I can think of many reasons. Perhaps it's a signal, so that any strange ship entering our universe will know where to look for life. Perhaps it marks the centre of galactic administration. Or perhaps - and somehow I feel that this is the real explanation - it's simply the greatest of all works of art. But it's foolish to speculate now. In a few hours we shall know the truth. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

art of hand-to-hand fighting in which the weight and efforts of the opponent are used to bring about his defeat," judo strategy exploits "techniques [that] are generally intended to turn an opponent's force to one's own advantage rather than to oppose it directly."1 In the world of business, we use the term "judo strategy" to describe a particular way of competing. A judo approach to competition emphasizes the use of movement and flexibility to ~ Anonymous

You're art that cannot be concealed ... danger that cannot be tamed ... love that cannot be measured ... a new law that denies a probable outcome. ~ Amy A. Bartol

Art is so subjective
it means something different to every person. The important thing for it to do is to touch on the senses and emotions. ~ Michelle Malone

History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now. ~ David Luiz

Art does what reality cannot. ~ Jayme K.