Art Quote by Pat Steir Download Open image “Art is the most important way of recording history.” — Pat Steir ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is History Important Way
One important part of historical recording is to get people of another generation to understand the feelings, the passion that went into social transformation.… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments. — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Art is only art when you're truly happy with it. Especially with what we went through to do this record. — Skrillex Copy Share Image
Like, music and songs, what we do, we can capture history as artists, so that's what I really try to do. — Raheem DeVaughn Copy Share Image
The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art. — Kristen Wiig Copy Share Image
The art is what can't be put on a timeline. You can't say, 'Well, I'm going to make a record in May because that's… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
The act of recording requires you to look at and handle and touch things, so yes - art is more than just looking and… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Art as a political gesture is committed to making something beautiful, and then understanding what beauty is in your own time, because what we… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up. — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
Art is a way you discover the past, and so it brings the past into the present and the future. That's why we have… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
The spiritual in my art is giving up control. My paintings are based on what I can do, and what I can do is… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
I consider my work non-objective and I think abstract is an abstraction of something, like a landscape. Abstraction means something is abstracted. It relates… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer. — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices. — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
When you see the holy halo around the holy heads on holy paintings - the halo is a bright light so you can't see… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
We live in a time when people are afraid of beauty, because beauty passes; you can't hang on to it. And even if you… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
An artist needs to become familiar with that which is most hidden from the self by the self. For this one thing which one… — Pat Steir 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
