Art Quote by Robert Adams Download Open image “...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.” — Robert Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art Important Artist Combining Combining Concrete Concrete Concrete Universal Important Inspirational Universal Universal Center
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface. — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there. — Prince Copy Share Image
Any artwork is part of something larger, grander and, you know, the situation that it's in is very important. — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity. — Ferdinand Hodler Copy Share Image
Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“Everything is simplicity there is nothing to do. There is no place to go. There is no thing to become. You are that, just… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge with life,… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something few… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
You've always been free. You've always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment… — Robert Adams 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
