Art Quote by Ananda Coomaraswamy Download Open image “The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.” — Ananda Coomaraswamy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Artist Skillful Contemplating Contemplation Contemplation Artist He man Incapable Incapable Contemplation Man Incapable Meditation Men Skillful Skillful Workman Workmen
I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it. — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This… — Mencius Copy Share Image
A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent? — William Morris Copy Share Image
A man must be master of himself and master of his word to achieve the full realization of himself as an artist — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would not be… — Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Copy Share Image
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the… — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
“There is then no sacred or profane, spiritual or sensual, but everything that lives is pure and void.” — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
“Those who think of their house as only a ‘machine to live in’ should judge their point of view by that Neolithic man, who… — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative… — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man… — Ananda Coomaraswamy 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… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“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… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“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
