Art Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Avant garde Avant garde art Care Modernism Propriety Take care
I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist. — Lucinda Childs Copy Share Image
“Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd, and inaccessible he is, the more he… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are the ones… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
“Art playing on its own disappearance and the disappearance of its object was still an art of great works. But art playing at re-cycling… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The artist is engaged constantly in building anti-environments. (And, by the way, the Courtly Love people were engaged in making love itself into an… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley 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
