Art Quotes

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Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man… — Pope Benedict XVI
Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any… — Andre Benjamin
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. — Walter Benjamin
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional… — Walter Benjamin
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. — Walter Benjamin
Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your… — Ezra Taft Benson
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form… — Bruce Beresford
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. — John Berger
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through… — John Berger
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into… — Ingmar Bergman
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to… — Alfred Adler
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which… — Henri Bergson
I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of… — Halle Berry
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. — Stella Adler
Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science. — Bruno Bettelheim
Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included...… — Joseph Beuys
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. — Theodor Adorno
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. — Theodor Adorno
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. — Theodor Adorno
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. — Ambrose Bierce
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. — Ambrose Bierce
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. — Ambrose Bierce
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. — Theodor Adorno
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any… — Ambrose Bierce
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. — Theodor Adorno

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