Schlanser Art Quotes

F I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur. ~ Henry James

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can't be one in my body. ~ Fernando Pessoa

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better. ~ Philipp Meyer

These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science. ~ Michael Polanyi

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California. ~ Gavin Newsom

It was then that he realized that all the things in the blaring white window displays, all the trendy new clothes, all the cheerful television commercials, all the soulful music, all the McDonald's Happy Meal toys, all the elaborate art and writing and films, it was all there to keep people further away from death… and for him, now it was failing. Maybe on some strange level, it was designed to fail, like a house built of playing cards, a fragile yet whimsical illusion. ~ Rebecca McNutt

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. ~ Ansel Adams

I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale. ~ Peter Beard

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it. ~ Anthony Burgess

An artist can't let madness stop him from making art, he simply has to channel it. ~ Christopher Moore

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements. ~ Jan Tschichold

I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative. ~ Frederick Lenz

Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers). ~ Jerry Saltz

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land. ~ Robert Henri

Every living thing dies, Art. That's why we cherish it while we have it. That's why we respect the decisions our loved ones make for themselves. That's why we love, and why we care, and why we hurt. Because everything dies. ~ Reilyn J. Hardy

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form. ~ Tom Stoppard

Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do. ~ Walter Darby Bannard

I hate when art becomes a religion. I feel the opposite. When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you're forfeiting your humanity. ~ Woody Allen

Ah, passing few are they who speak,
Wild, stormy month! in praise of thee;
Yet though thy winds are loud and bleak,
Thou art a welcome month to me.
For thou, to northern lands, again
The glad and glorious sun dost bring,
And thou hast joined the gentle train
And wear'st the gentle name of Spring. ~ William C. Bryant

I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be. ~ Selima Hill

Are you mad at me?" Her brow was wrinkled and her eyes were worried, and she wasn't smiling anymore. "I thought you would laugh." She shrugged. "I told Kathleen I was going to surprise you. And she said, 'Go right ahead!' So I did. I used your paints, but I put everything back."
"Why are you kicking me in the head?"
"It's our story. We meet. You save me. I kiss you. You kiss me back, but you keep acting like you don't like me even though I know you do. So I'm kicking some sense into you. And man, does it feel good." She grinned cheekily, and I looked back at her depiction. That was some kick to the head.
"It's a terrible mural." It was terrible. And funny. And very Georgia.
"Well, we can't all be Leonardo DiCaprio. You painted on my walls, I'm painting on yours. And you don't even have to pay me. I'm just trying to bond with you over art."
"Leonardo da Vinci, you mean?"
"Him too." She smiled again and laid back on my bed, patting the spot beside her.
"You could have at least given me some biceps. That doesn't look anything like me. And why am I saying, 'Don't hurt me, Georgia!'"
I plopped down on the bed and purposely landed partially on top of her. She wiggled and scooted breathlessly, trying to free herself from my intentional squishing...
She stroked my head and I breathed against her skin.
"Are we bonding over art?" she whispered in my ear.
"No. ~ Amy Harmon

Why commit to art? For self-realization, or for itself? ~ Patti Smith

I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art. ~ Kailash Kher

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there. So it's like we gave each other the whole world, tied up in ribbon.

"You want me to learn the entire universe?" His grin is natural, somewhat abashed; we are no longer guard and grand duchess, just a guy and a girl, standing very close. "For you I will. ~ Claudia Gray

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another. ~ Rebecca Miller

Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be used for inspiration and not for imitation. These works should be something to be built upon, not to be repeated. ~ Alexey Brodovitch

One has to guard against a formula that is good for everything, that can interpret reality in addition to the other arts, and that rather than creating can only result in a style, or a stylization. ~ Georges Braque

From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as I had long ago dreamt of doing, based on the Tintin paradigm: on my toes, travelling, senses attentuated, everything just adventure and exploration, curiosity and problem-solving. ~ Luke Davies

How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably more perfect than at any previous time, one which does not break with the past, while it brings a sense of comely order, and a radiant beauty, to cottage and manor alike. ~ William Rothenstein

Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle. ~ William Carlos Williams

What shall it be? The easy path? Or the road less traveled? Ask yourself: Can you afford to maintain your unmoving place in life? Are you willing to stay in the status quo, or do you want to do something so that one day you will not look back on a life strewn with regrets?

As we struggle under the weight of our circumstances when the vision of our hopes and dreams grows dim, we must never forget what Robert Frost wrote about the positive impact that taking a less-traveled direction can make on a person's life... ~ Art E. Berg

The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script. ~ David Bailey

Why did men drink wine and women water? Why was one sex so prosperous and the other so poor? What effect has poverty on fiction? What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art? ~ Virginia Woolf

Sometimes one's very angry and preaches, but I know that to clinch a point is to close it. To leave the reader free to decide what your work means, that's the real art; it makes the work inexhaustible. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Images are life's most cherished moments quoted with wings. ~ C.C. Wyatt

I believe that every human being should try to do good for someone else. There are so many different ways to do it. My art can be an instrument for helping people ... What a good feeling - that I can do that with my art ... ~ Romero Britto

A lot of times there were big mistakes, but I would show the art director and he'd say, Yeah, let's go with it. There would be a strange cropping or one girl in focus and three out or a blur. But I would end up liking the mistakes and incorporating them into my work. And I became known for it. ~ Deborah Turbeville

I quite like it to be risky. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet. I've arrived at that point in the art world where there really is a chair that you sit in. ~ Damien Hirst

As long as art lives never shall I accept that men are truly dead. ~ Giorgio Vasari

So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or modern, moves us aesthetically only in so far as it possesses a force over and beyond its aspect. ~ Lawren Harris