Art Quotes - page 89

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years. (David Rockefeller)
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste. View quote
David Rockefeller
The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past. View quote
David Rockefeller
The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes. View quote
David Rockefeller
They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought. View quote
David Rockefeller
Someone should tell him that part of the art of politics is smiling when you feel like you're swallowing a turd. View quote
Bill Clinton
The first and foremost critic of a work of art is the artist who created it. Give him every means to illustrate it and make it known. If an artist awaits celebrity or gratefulness for his work through other people, he will have the time to die a thousand times for sheer hunger. View quote
Fortunato Depero
The revolution cannot seek to stifle art or culture since one of the goals and fundamental aims of the revolution is to develop art and culture, precisely so that art and culture truly become the patrimony of the people. View quote
Fidel Castro
I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of the documentaire de création where the film, if successful, is not about something but that something itself. The goal is to incorporate areas of risk and paradox that we associate with cinematic art. View quote
Damian Pettigrew
You request me to tell you...if it is true that the creed of all who profess to love high and serious art is: "There is no God but Bach, and Mendelssohn is his prophet"? View quote
Hector Berlioz
This sudden and unexpected revelation of Shakespeare overwhelmed me. The lightning-flash of his genius revealed the whole heaven of art to me, illuminating its remotest depths in a single flash. I recognised the meaning of real grandeur, real beauty, and the real dramatic truth. (Hector Berlioz)
Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing. View quote
Horace Mann
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. View quote
Harry S. Truman
It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought to get out and go and help a child learn how to swim or something. But after observing the Mexicans' capability for staring into space for hours on end, I decided to put in some proper practice. View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
International language of the forthcoming generations will be solely and by necessity only a language of art. View quote
L. L. Zamenhof
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art. View quote
Maurice Ravel
Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art. To give praise which is not due might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Architecture worth great attention. As we double our numbers every 20 years we must double our houses. Besides we build of such perishable materials that one half of our houses must be rebuilt in every space of 20 years. So that in that term, houses are to be built for three fourths of our inhabitants. It is then among the most important arts: and it is desireable to introduce taste into an art which shews so much. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowlege can never be lost. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art. To give praise which is not due might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature. They know, and will therefore say, that kings are the servants, not the proprietors of the people. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. I may grow rich by art I am compelled to follow, I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment, but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve & abhor. (Thomas Jefferson)
The Hindus do not pay particular attention to alchemy, but no nation is entirely free from it, and one nation has more bias for it than another, which must not be construed as proving intelligence or ignorance; for we find that many intelligent people are entirely given to alchemy, whilst ignorant people ridicule the art and its adepts. View quote
Al-Biruni
You well know ... for which reason I began searching for a number of demonstrations proving a statement due to the ancient Greeks ... and which passion I felt for the subject ... so that you reproached me my preoccupation with these chapters of geometry, not knowing the true essence of these subjects, which consists precisely in going in each matter beyond what is necessary. ... Whatever way he [the geometer] may go, through exercise will he be lifted from the physical to the divine teachings, which are little accessible because of the difficulty to understand their meaning ... and because the circumstance that not everybody is able to have a conception of them, especially not the one who turns away from the art of demonstration. View quote
Al-Biruni
Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you. View quote
Denis Dutton
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art. View quote
Dennis Potter