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ART: Contemporary audiences tend to go towards books and plays which deal with actual events, believing that what happens in life is “real” and what an artist creates is not. In doing so, they fail to recognize how much more valuable than the real thing the unreal thing can be if it tells us the truth about that thing. (Thomas Stoppard, Czech-born British award-winning playwright and screenwriter, Born 1937)
ART: Contemporary audiences tend to go towards books and plays which deal with actual events, believing that what happens in life is real and what an artist creates is not. In doing so, they fail to recognize how much more valuable than the real thing the unreal thing can be if it tells us the truth about that thing. (Unknown Source)
ART: Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. (Unknown Source)
ART: If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. (Edward Hopper, U.S. realist painter, 1882-1967Ambition: If you're looking too far down the road, you're not seeing what's right in front of you. (Preet Bharara, Indian-American attorney, Born 1968)
ART: Participation in the arts makes the soul grow. That’s how you grow a soul. (Kurt Vonnegut, U.S. writer, 1922-2007)
ART: To engage with a work of art is to engage in empathy, to enter the experience of another, to connect with their humanity. (David L. Ulin, U.S. author and Guggenheim Fellow)
ART: [The arts] speak to what we share, what we hold in common, rather than what pries us apart. (David L. Ulin, U.S. author and Guggenheim Fellow)
ART: Participating in the arts--drawing, dancing, and all that---makes the soul grow. That's why you engage in it. That's how you grow a soul. (Kurt Vonnegut, U.S. writer, 1922-2007)
ART: Contemporary audiences tend to go towards books and plays which deal with actual events, believing that what happens in life is real and what an artist creates is not. In doing so, they fail to recognize how much more valuable than the real thing the unreal thing can be if it tells us the truth about that thing. (Thomas Stoppard, Czech-born British award-winning playwright and screenwriter, Born 1937)
ART: Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. (Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)
ART: Art is a form of perceptual gymnastics. (Umberto Eco, Italian novelist, literary critic, and semiotician, 1932-2016)
ART: If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. (Edward Hopper, U.S. realist painter, 1882-1967)
ART: Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery. (William Golding, British novelist, playwright, poet, and Nobel laureate, 1911-1993)
ART: Art should be like a holiday: something to give people the opportunity to see things differently and to change their point of view. (Patricio Aylwin, Chilean politician whose election as President marked the Chilean transition to democracy, 1918-2016)
ART: Art is a lie that helps us realize the truth. (Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)
ART: Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view. (Patricio Aylwin, Chilean politician whose election as President marked the Chilean transition to democracy, 1918-2016)
ART: A picture is a poem without words. (Horace, Roman lyric poet and satirist, 65 to 8 BCE)
ART: Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)
ART: Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. (Marshall McLuhan, Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980)
ART: The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract. (Patricio Aylwin, Chilean politician whose election as President marked the Chilean transition to democracy, 1918-2016)
ART: Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. (Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)
ART: It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
ART: Art is the signature of civilizations. (Beverly Sills, U.S. operatic soprano singer, 1929-2007)
ART: An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing. (Louise Bourgeois, French-American artist who is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, 1911-2010)