Art Quote by James Elkins Download Open image “It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.” — James Elkins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Ifs Irrelevance Modernism
Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Art can do the opposite of glamourise the unattainable: it can show us anew the genuine merit of life as we're forced to lead… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda. — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has long been… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give us the… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
A few moments before the sun sets, the dark Earth shadow begins to rise in the east... It is nothing less than the shadow… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
At concerts, for me, the orchestra was like a painter. It flooded me with all the colours of the rainbow. If the violin came… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
The range in brightness from the purple glow [of the sunset] to the dark sky above is too great for most films, and naturally… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up, always speaking… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint is a… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand. — James Elkins Copy Share Image
I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists, and toss… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly… — James Elkins 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
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