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Art Is Quotes - Page 6

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

T. S. Eliot (1998). “The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays”, p.29, Courier Corporation

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.61, New York Review of Books

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

Niklas Luhmann (2000). “Art as a Social System”, p.153, Stanford University Press

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

"One last thing". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2009.

All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1800, Princeton University Press

All art is exploitation.

Interview with Rob Capriccioso, www.identitytheory.com. March 23, 2003.

Art is a personal act of courage.

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.77, Penguin

All good art is about something deeper than it admits.

Roger Ebert (2002). “The Great Movies”, p.456, Crown Archetype

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?

May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.42, Open Road Media

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.291, SIU Press

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

"Trumpeter Herb Alpert". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. March 3, 2014.

Art is not an anaemic cult but a dynamic culture.

Harry Hooton (1961). “It is Great to be Alive”