Art Quote by Susan Sontag Download Open image “One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.” — Susan Sontag ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Inspirational Intention Knows Needs
There is no communication with any public whatsoever. The artist can ask no question, and he makes no statement; he offers no information, and… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
“Because most artists have not told us of their intentions, and beacause those artists ( and patrons or agents) who have stated their intentions… — Sylvan Barnet Copy Share Image
The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Why not eliminate schooling between age 12-16? It’s biologically + psychologically too turbulent a time to be cooped up inside, made to sit all… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but… — Susan Sontag 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
