Lasansky Art Quotes

#1. A man of talent is not born to be left to himself, but to devote himself to art and good masters who will make something of him. #Quote by Johann Peter Eckermann

#2. In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression. #Quote by Edward De Bono

#3. Today, you can view the collections of many art galleries and museums from around the world, including Te Papa, on the internet. #Quote by Isaac Du Toit

#4. Enmerson's interest is in the workshop phase, the birthing stage of art, not the museum moment, the embalming phase. Poetry mimics Creation and is therefore sacred. More precisely, just as God may indeed be a verb (as Mary Daly insists), poetry is the act of creating. The process of poetry also mimics the process of nature. 'This expression or naming is not art, but a second nature, grown out of the first, as a leaf out of a tree. What we call nature is a certain self-regulated motion or change.' Another aspect of nature is genius, which, as Emerson observes, 'is the activity which repairs the decays of things. #Quote by Robert D. Richardson

#5. Art expresses complex intangible feelings we can't explain in any other way. Art is everywhere, art is love; love is God; God is art. They're one and the same. #Quote by J. Matthew Nespoli

#6. The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people. #Quote by Wynton Marsalis

#7. These revelations expressed through Art work upon the soul with a force carrying its own conviction and permeate our sentient life with a sense of truth which logic and mere reason are powerless to combat. #Quote by Richard Wagner

#8. There are many museums dedicated to technology, artistic endeavors, music, and that sort of thing. From that perspective, I think games really do have a place as a kind of collaborative art or a synthesis of all these various aspects into a whole, and that, in itself, can be perceived as art. #Quote by Hideo Kojima

#9. I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes! #Quote by Sam Taylor-Wood

#10. The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again. #Quote by Samuel Beckett

#11. Ferrol's Law was created for ordinary Fhrey, not the Miralyith," Gryndal said. "The Art has elevated us, and we cannot be bound by the law of a god when we have become gods ourselves."
Arion saw Mawyndulë nodding, a look of wonder and admiration in his eyes. He would be the next fane, and it was her responsibility to make sure he was a good ruler. She stepped forward.
"How wonderful! I wasn't aware we had achieved divinity. When exactly did that happen?"
Her tone caught them all by surprise.
"And now that we have," she continued, "please tell me when we'll be having tea with brother Ferrol? My mother would love his recipe for vegetable soup. As for myself, I'd like some advice on how to create my own race of people, for that ability has eluded me. #Quote by Michael J. Sullivan

#12. Daemonic compulsiveness can kill as easily as it can save.
The true novelist must be at once driven and indifferent. Van
Gogh never sold a painting in his life. Poe came close with
poetry and fiction, selling very little. Drivenness only helps if
it forces the writer not to suicide but to the making of splendid
works of art, allowing him indifference to whether or not the
novel sells, whether or not it's appreciated. Drivenness is trouble
for both the novelist and his friends; but no novelist, I
think, can succeed without it. Along with the peasant in the
novelist, there must be a man with a whip. #Quote by John Gardner

#13. First I went to C.W. Post and I was a psychology and theater major and then I transferred to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts as a drama major. #Quote by John Leguizamo

#14. Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies. #Quote by Donnie Yen

#15. Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features. #Quote by Joseph Joubert

#16. Our vision is to rediscover the spirit of the Renaissance, create a new discipline where engineering for cultural heritage is actually a symbol of blending art and science together. #Quote by Maurizio Seracini

#17. To most women art is a form of scandal. #Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

#18. Above all, don't lie to yourself." – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"I don't want to die without any scars." – Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Not all those who wander are lost." – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." – André Gide, Autumn Leaves

"If you're making mistakes it means you're out there doing something." – Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." – Paulo Coelho, Brida

"If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives."
– Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator

"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

"I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do." – Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all." – John Green, Paper Towns

"Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer." – Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

"Fear is an illusion..." - Dark Templar, Starcraft 2 #Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#19. One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don't know they know ... Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough ... So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness. #Quote by William S. Burroughs

#20. And after his unparsable response, including a passage where he said he was 'blurring the boundaries between a thing and thought,' she said, 'Thank you, I get lost sometimes,' while laying two fingers on his folded arm. #Quote by Steve Martin

#21. Some things are meant to live and die with an artist #Quote by J.R. Stewart

#22. Later in life the force of abstinence was to really be understood and my parent's problems became very clear. When will man appreciate his pleasures and respect them enough to indulge in moderation? #Quote by Theresa Sjoquist

#23. Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible and freely exchanged. For hip-hop to grow while keeping a sense of integrity, the essence of the culture has to be handed down and respected like any high form of art. #Quote by One9

#24. The straightforward manner is seldom equal to the complications of the good subject. There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art, the way of saying a thing becomes a part of what is said, every work of art is unique and requires fresh attention. #Quote by Flannery O'Connor

#25. He was someone who had to live alone, someone who found it difficult to be with others for any length of time, because he only had one mode - that discreet art of withdrawal which had, no doubt, taken him years to perfect. He had no other strategies for getting along with people and, though his colleagues probably saw this as the mark of a gentle, erudite, considerate soul, I was suddenly able to see right through it. Not because I was so very perceptive, but because I was so like him. He had been living in that one mode for so long, he had almost forgotten about it, but I was a near-beginner, and for me it was painfully obvious. #Quote by John Burnside

#26. What you need to know about the next piece is contained in the last piece. The place to learn about your materials is in the last use of your materials. The place to learn about your execution is in your execution. Put simply, your work is your guide: a complete, comprehensive, limitless reference book on your work. #Quote by David Bayles

#27. In art, and in literature, the end and the means, or the subject and the style, must be worthy of each other.
That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth re-creating in art. #Quote by Ayn Rand

#28. Better gray than garishness. #Quote by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

#29. Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation. #Quote by Leonard Nimoy

#30. If you leave off looking at books about beasts and men, if you begin to look at beasts and men then (if you have any humour or imagination, any sense of the frantic or the farcical) you will observe that the startling thing is not how like man is to the brutes, but how unlike he is. It is the monstrous scale of his divergence that requires an explanation. That man and brute are like is, in a sense, a truism; but that being so like they should then be so insanely unlike, that is the shock and the enigma. That an ape has hands is far less interesting to the philosopher than the fact that having hands he does next to nothing with them; does not play knuckle-bones or the violin; does not carve marble or carve mutton. People talk of barbaric architecture and debased art. But elephants do not build colossal temples of ivory even in a roccoco style; camels do not paint even bad pictures, though equipped with the material of many camel's-hair brushes. Certain modern dreamers say that ants and bees have a society superior to ours. They have, indeed, a civilization; but that very truth only reminds us that it is an inferior civilization. Who ever found an ant-hill decorated with the statues of celebrated ants? Who has seen a bee-hive carved with the images of gorgeous queens of old? No; the chasm between man and other creatures may have a natural explanation, but it is a chasm. We talk of wild animals; but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals ar #Quote by G.K. Chesterton

#31. Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident. #Quote by Jacques Monod

#32. LEIA [to Han:] Hast thou come here in that ungainly heap? Thou art, perhaps, then braver than I thought. #Quote by Ian Doescher

#33. You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it. #Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright

#34. There's so many bigger things in the world. The art world is such a tiny little thing compared to wars and migration crises. It's weird to be self-absorbed in it. #Quote by Jim Shaw

#35. Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form. #Quote by Glenda Bailey

#36. Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough. #Quote by Paul Simon

#37. lying on marble
the lazy cat
gazes at dying stars #Quote by Elancharan Gunasekaran

#38. I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think. #Quote by Matt Tong

#39. Do we create an impact to make money or de we make money to create an IMPACT ? #Quote by Onkar K Khullar (Digital Gandhi)

#40. One learns first of all in beach living the art of sheding;how little one can get along with, not how much ... To say-is it necessary?-when I am tempted to add one more accumulation to my life, when I am pulled toward one more centrifugal activity. One is free, like the hermit crab, to change one's shell. #Quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#41. Whether you think you like Rubens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of painting. Like Warhol, he changed the game of art. #Quote by Jenny Saville

#42. Art is by nature aristocratic, and naturally selective in its effect on the audience. For even in its 'collective' manifestations, like theatre or cinema, its effect is bound up with the intimate emotions of each person who comes into contact with a work. The more the individual is traumatised and gripped by these emotions, the more significant a place will the work have in his experience.
The aristocratic nature of art, however does not in any way absolve the artist of his responsibility to his public and even, if you like, more broadly, to people in general. On the contrary, because of his special awareness of his time and of the world in which he lives, the artist becomes the voice of those who cannot formulate or express their view of reality. In that sense the artist is indeed vox populi. That is why he is called to serve his own talent, which means serving his people. #Quote by Andrei Tarkovsky

#43. Epitaph to a Dog[4]Edit

Near this Spot
are deposited the Remains of one
who possessed Beauty without Vanity,
Strength without Insolence,
Courage without Ferocity,
and all the virtues of Man without his Vices.

This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery
if inscribed over human Ashes,
is but a just tribute to the Memory of
Boatswain, a Dog
who was born in Newfoundland May 1803
and died at Newstead Nov. 18th, 1808


When some proud Son of Man returns to Earth,
Unknown to Glory, but upheld by Birth,
The sculptor's art exhausts the pomp of woe,
And storied urns record who rests below.
When all is done, upon the Tomb is seen,
Not what he was, but what he should have been.
But the poor Dog, in life the firmest friend,
The first to welcome, foremost to defend,
Whose honest heart is still his Master's own,
Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone,
Unhonoured falls, unnoticed all his worth,
Denied in heaven the Soul he held on earth –
While man, vain insect! hopes to be forgiven,
And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.

Oh man! thou feeble tenant of an hour,
Debased by slavery, or corrupt by power –
Who knows thee well, must quit thee with disgust,
Degraded mass of animated dust!
Thy love is lust, thy friendship all a cheat,
Thy tongue hypocrisy, thy heart deceit!
By nature vile, #Quote by Lord Byron

#44. sometimes i am not sure.
if i am
writing the poem
or the poem
is writing me. #Quote by Sanober Khan

#45. Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had. #Quote by Gary Holland