Art Quote by Ellen Dissanayake Download Open image “Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.” — Ellen Dissanayake ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Extraordinary Ordinary
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
The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly insignificant .… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
We can begin a discussion of artmaking by noting that from very early (as long ago as 200,000 years), humans have been naturally attracted… — Ellen Dissanayake Copy Share Image
The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art. — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
Find a perspective that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. — Dewitt Jones Copy Share Image
The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
As soon as it is seen, the extraordinary starts becoming ordinary! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
We can begin a discussion of artmaking by noting that from very early (as long ago as 200,000 years), humans have been naturally attracted… — Ellen Dissanayake Copy Share Image
Art is a normal and necessary behavior of human beings and like other common and universal occupations such as talking, working, exercising, playing, socializing,… — Ellen Dissanayake Copy Share Image
In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least some form… — Ellen Dissanayake Copy Share Image
I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a ritualized behaviour:… — Ellen Dissanayake 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
