Art Quote by Catherine Drinker Bowen Download Open image “If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.” — Catherine Drinker Bowen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Dreams Life Purpose
To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of… — Henry Green Copy Share Image
Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life. — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to… — Christian Slater Copy Share Image
Art brings to life things that can seemingly be dead, and can put a fresh perspective on things that are living. It's so important… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art.… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty-- his escape from the sordid realities of life into a world of… — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
“Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences every thing twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation. — Catherine Drinker Bowen 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
