Art Quote by Eli Siegel Download Open image “Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.” — Eli Siegel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Fairness Soothing Surprising
“Art makes the familiar strange so that it can be freshly perceived. To do this it presents its material in unexpected, even outlandish ways:… — Viktor Shklovsky Copy Share Image
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had. — Gary Holland Copy Share Image
It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The character itself… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
“People experience art as a transformative or even transcendent experience when it really only reflects back and awakens parts of them that are already… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Art is not always meant to be decorative or soothing, in fact, it can create uncomfortable conversations and stimulate uncomfortable emotions. — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
What I'm most fascinated by is the ability of art to induce changes, but remain grounded solidly in its art practice. — Larissa Sansour Copy Share Image
Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who's strong enough to shed new light on it. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too. — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
“The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker…. Labor is the only source of wealth.… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
There is a quality of murky grandeur we give ourselves in having our own feelings, recoiling, separate from other things... To feel that we… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected. — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity... — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites, — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
“The self can watch itself becoming lazy, or non-watchful; this is an asset that can make both for humor and profound well-being.” — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
Is there in every work of art something which shows reality as one and also something which shows reality as many and diverse? -… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves. — Eli Siegel 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
