Art Quote by Teller Download Open image “The place we want to explore unpleasantness in the real world is in art.” — Teller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Explore Place Real Real world The real world Want World
Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that. — Ed Kowalczyk 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
“My personal philosophy is that you do art to experience emotion that you don't have the luxury of experiencing in real life.” — Kinan Azmeh Copy Share Image
“The point is not to resist painful experiences or grasp at pleasant ones: that's a kind of craving - and craving leads to suffering.… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put us through… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
Art is not always meant to be decorative or soothing, in fact, it can create uncomfortable conversations and stimulate uncomfortable emotions. — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake… — Teller Copy Share Image
People come up to me on the street and make some little joke - like they'll say, 'Excuse me, sir, what time is it?'… — Teller Copy Share Image
Indian street magic tends to be very gory, blood and guts. One trick is for a magician to take a knife and appear to… — Teller Copy Share Image
Given my absolute druthers, I would certainly like to see that every part of my body is used for spare parts for science. — Teller Copy Share Image
The silent thing onstage allows for a kind of intimacy that no conversation can have. If I just shut up, we're forced to look… — Teller Copy Share Image
Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years. — Teller Copy Share Image
When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable. — Teller 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
