Art Quote by Eva Figes Download Open image “grievance does not make for great art.” — Eva Figes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Doe Great art Grievance
The role of art in society is not to resolve conflicts; rather, it is to express these conflicts and antagonisms. — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by. — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone. — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by. — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted. — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may be a… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
“But I know that the body I inhabit will only take so much, can only go so far. Rocks, stones, even the leaning twisting… — Eva Figes 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
