Art Quote by Alfred Jarry Download Open image “The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.” — Alfred Jarry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Crocodiles Works of art
You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile! — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Working with crocodiles is always amazing because they're beautiful. They're modern day dinosaurs, which is really cool. — Bindi Irwin Copy Share Image
I don't know what art is, but I do know what it isn't. And it isn't someone walking around with a salmon over his… — Brian Sewell Copy Share Image
There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction. — Richard Artschwager Copy Share Image
A work of art is like a person: it has more than one soul in its breast. — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive. — William Dobell Copy Share Image
“The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations. — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company? — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
“If we want to lower ourselves to the level of the public there are two things we can do for them--and which are done for them. The first is to give them characters who think as they do [...], and whom they understand perfectly. When this is the case they receive two impressions; firstly they think that they must themselves… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share
Dieu est le point tangent de ze ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite. — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty. — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
“Writing a part with the talents of a particular actor in mind is the method most likely to result in ephemeral plays: for, once that actor is dead, it will not be easy to find an identical replacement. This system gives and author without creative talent the advantage of a ready-made model whose muscles he can flex as he chooses.… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share
“The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
“One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.” — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
