Art Quote by Marianne Moore Download Open image “When we think we don't like art it is because it is artificial art.” — Marianne Moore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artificial Inspirational Love Thinking
Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only… — John Marin Copy Share Image
There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem. — Danny Huston Copy Share Image
I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts. — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It's not ideal when art is seen as just some passing entertainment quickly thrown out into the market, like a consumer object. You have… — Christine Leunens Copy Share Image
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“Do the poet and scientist not work analogously? Both are willing to waste effort. To be hard on himself is one ...of the main… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible. — Marianne Moore 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