Art Quote by Langdon Brown Gilkey Download Open image “Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.” — Langdon Brown Gilkey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Conventional Conventional life Life Opaque Pierce Reality Seeing Subjectivity
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I believe art is a way to attune to what reality is, which is a weird reality. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“Art is just another way to describe and classify reality – its mystical aspects merely a function of ignorance.” — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience. — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is also important… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence, indifference at… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare. — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were… — Langdon Brown Gilkey 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