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Magdalene
Abakanowicz |
Art
does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence.
It opens
our eyes to see and our brain to imagine. |
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Berenice
Abbott |
People
say you have to eexpress your emotions. I'm sick of that.
Photography does not teach you how to express your emotions. It
teaches you how to see. |
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Ansel
Adams |
Art
is the affirmation of life. |
|
Ansel
Adams |
You
don't take a photograph, you make it. |
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Ansel
Adams |
The
more beauty in the mind, the more peace in the spirit.
[letter to Virginia Best, 1924] |
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Scott
Adams |
Creativity
is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing
which ones to keep. |
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Stella
Adler |
Life
beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you
have one. |
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Ai Wei
Wei
(born 1957) |
It's
art, or not art, I don't know, I don't care. It's not the
think I care about the most. I care if I can provide a new
condition, a new perspective, and from that angle can see
something completely new.
[from The Hanging Man] |
|
Ai Wei
Wei |
Without
freedom of speech there is no modern world, only a barbaric one. |
|
Ai
Wei Wei |
Without
humor there is no work. [quoted in New York Times, Oct 12, 2011] |
|
Ai
Wei Wei |
Art
needs to stand for something. [quoted in The Guardian, Sept
10, 2012] |
|
Edward
Albee |
All
art should ne useful. If it's merely decorative, it's a waste of
time. If you're going to spend a couple of hours of your life
listening to string quartets or being at plays or going to a
museum and looking at paintings, something should happen to you.
You shuld be changed. |
|
Joseph
Albers |
Art
is not an object but an experience. |
|
Alberti |
Beauty
is a kind of harmony and concord of all the parts to form a
whole which
is constructed according to a fixed number, and a certain
relation and order,
as symmetry, the highest and most perfect law of nature. |
|
Carl
Andre
(born 1935) |
A
man climbs a mountain because it's there. A man makes a work of
art because it isn't there. |
|
Carl
Andre |
Without
limits nothing really good can be accomplished. I feel
I've been liberated by them. [New York Times, July 1, 2011] |
|
Jean
Anouilh |
Life
is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it
some. |
|
Aristotle
(384-322 bce) |
The
aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things
but their inward significance. |
|
Aristotle |
Why
is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or
the arts are melancholic? |
|
Aristotle |
Art
not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies. |
|
Richard
Avedon |
All
photographs are accurate, none of them is the truth. |
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