Fikioris Art Quotes

O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies; To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art. ~ George Santayana

I think an art collection is a lot like a diary. Your taste evolves with time. I try to never sell anything, because it's part of my journey. ~ Delphine Arnault

Art as activism. Like Banksy?"
"Man, Banksy's some white-ass bullshit. Sorry," he apologizes hastily, as though he might've offended my white-ass feelings.
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"A'ight, so the dude flew out to Gaza to spray-paint a kitten on a house that'd been destroyed in an air strike. Like, the fuck? Talk about insensitive. Then our white savior has the audacity to call it art, to demand folks listen to his views on the atrocities of war, rather than the Palestinians who lived through it." He shakes his head, his hand tensing and untensing in mine. "Sorry. Shit drives me crazy sometimes. ~ Laura Steven

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. ~ John Ruskin

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth. ~ Milford Zornes

Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really appreciate my art. It is not their fault; we do not see the same things with the same eyes, or have the same thoughts raised in us by them. They will never be able to understand what painting is. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art. ~ Felix De Weldon

What makes art powerful is a flash of recognition, a frightening encounter with something familiar about the human condition. ~ Joshua Oppenheimer

Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself. ~ Romare Bearden

The best art on a football field usually happens during kickoff returns. ~ Kevin Sampsell

This book by Dr. Yasuda, while ostensibly about haiku, in reality penetrates deeply into the totality of this living spirit of Japan. It deals with those aspects which have produced and maintained haiku into the present day. The important key to understanding comes with the realization that in Japanese art one strives always for the absolute. Of the absolute there is no question of degree; it is either attained or lost. Most often, to be sure, it is not attained, but it is the constant striving toward and awareness of that high goal which gives strength and vitality to this living aesthetic spirit which has so impressed me in Japan.

(Robert B. Hall, Foreword, p. x) ~ Kenneth Yasuda

Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. ~ Mel Brooks

Observe yourself as you start to drift toward the internet, searching for confirmation that you suck, and then use that impetus as a signal to instead turn off your phone or internet connection and be messy in your art for an hour without the intention of making anything in particular. ~ Beth Pickens

The theater has to impose itself on the public, and not the public on the theater ... The word "Art" should be written everywhere, in the auditorium and in the dressing rooms, before the word "Business" gets written there. ~ Federico Garcia Lorca

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. ~ Nobu Matsuhisa

I often wonder how different the world would be if Hitler had not been turned down when he applied to art school. ~ George Carlin

Ah yes, you like to cook, don't you?
well, i used to. you need real dedication. fresh ingredients, a discerning palate, an eye for presentation. it's not a modern art. good cooking has hardly evolved since the nineteenth century. ~ Haruki Murakami

Originally, I didn't want to say too much about the art ... ~ Joel Houston

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements. ~ Giacomo Puccini

I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really plastered and told his buddy that he could convince people that librarians needed to be trained in the art of librarianship. Sadly, this is not the case; its roots are a bit more academic. ~ Scott Douglas

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great. ~ William James

Hosting is an art form. Like acting, singing, or comedy hosting is a craft. It's a delicate dance of timing, the ability to read the room, and the art of conversation. ~ Todd Newton

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them. ~ Pauline Kael

The aim of language ... is to communicate ... to impart to others the results one has obtained ... As I talk, I reveal the situation ... I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but of all; and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us. ~ Plato

Dance is the language of artistic kinesis. ~ Pablito Greco

Art is really a battle. ~ Edgar Degas

The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead. ~ Cecil Day-Lewis

Philosophy is the abstract art of thoughts and perceptions that form colors of words and languages that paint the canvas of our minds. ~ Debasish Mridha

The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless. ~ Win Butler

While the concept of the muse is noteworthy, the development of the muse has changed substantially in today's online world. The tables have practically turned as the artist who is responsible for creating music in today's world is now being the muse to others. They have been responsible for the creation of "fan art," a style of performance where people create new forms of media based off of existing creations.
It was originally that the muse was what prompted the artist to create something new. Today it has changed to where the artist is the muse to others in society. ~ Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

relationship between creatures and their creators, the love between parent and children, artists and their art, all creators and their creations. The poem celebrated love and loyalty but teetered on the brink of nihilism with its constant thread of corruption through love of power, human ambition and intellectual hubris. Martin ~ Dan Simmons

Art is so many different things
Our lives should be art -
What we do, how we speak,
how we think, how we create,
how and what we feel,
how we see the world,
what we do with our God-given gifts.
It's all art,
just not in the conventional sense.
We are art. ~ Melody Lee

The scope of art is practically boundless; it does not begin and end with the painting of pictures and the modeling of statues; where there is room for workmanship there is room for it. ~ Lewis Foreman Day