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Art Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
- I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.
- I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the…
- It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
- Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.
- Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better.
- Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church stuff, but it…
- The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what…
- Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is…
- In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and…
- An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something…
- There's a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do. It doesn't happen…
- Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov