Art Quote by Will Gompertz Download Open image ““Art is always to an extent about trying to create order out of chaos.”” — Will Gompertz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art
“Art is the endeavour to sense the invisible rhythms that surround us, to discover their law, to turn chaos to order.” — Ernst-Erik Pfannschmidt Copy Share Image
Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life. — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Life is not always deep, mostly it's just random. But it’s different in art. In art you can choose to show some things and… — Oren Lavie Copy Share Image
“It’s a urinal! It’s not even the original. The art is in the idea, not the object.” — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
I think art world will have consolidated, I think it will slow down a little bit. I think it will be less white and… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
“That, he thought, was the essential purpose of art—to capture the universal in the everyday, which was particular to their here and now: the… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
I don't think ever before in the whole of human history has so much art been made, bought, and sold. It's a massive international… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
“Paint, for the Impressionists, became a medium whose material properties were being celebrated as opposed to being disguised behind the artifice of a pictorial… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
“Duchamp thought it was for artists to decide what was and what was not a work of art. His position was that if an… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
“He considered the medium to be secondary: first and foremost was the idea. Only after an artist had settled on and developed a concept… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
Group shows are always much harder to present to the public because there's a theme to the show. They always do less well because… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
We're moving from a generation who gave little thought as to the built environment and accepted housing that was neither pleasant to look at,… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
“An artist’s job was not to give aesthetic pleasure—designers could do that; it was to step back from the world and attempt to make… — Will Gompertz 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
