“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”
Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
http://www.girlscantwhat.com/2007/10/15/i-am-my-own-experiment/ <br class="br">Variant: I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
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“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.”
Will Durant book The Story of Philosophy
The Story of Philosophy (1926)
“Art hurts. Art urges voyages—
and it is easier to stay at home.”
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) American writer
"The Chicago Picasso" (1968)
“Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.”
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
“When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.”
Robert Henri (1865–1929) American painter
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
The Fly, st. 1–3
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)
“The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.”
Orson Welles (1915–1985) American actor, director, writer and producer
Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003) French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Source: Annie Hall: Screenplay
“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.”
Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker
Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
"Common Places," No. 1, The Literary Examiner (September - December 1823), reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt (1902-1904)
“O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:”
William Blake book Songs of Experience
The Sick Rose, plate 39.
Source: Songs of Experience (1794)
Context: p>O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.</p
“A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.”
Yann Martel book Beatrice and Virgil
Source: Beatrice and Virgil
“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
The Pre-War Notebook (1933-1939), published in First and Last Notebooks (1970) edited by Richard Rees
Gregory Hill (1941–2000) American writer and founder of Discordianism
Source: Principia Discordia ● Or ● How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger
“The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us”
Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
"The Precarious Vogue of Ingmar Bergman" in Esquire (April 1960); republished as "The Northern Protestant" in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961) and in The Price of the Ticket (1985)
“I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof”
Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist
Source: Ani Difranco - Little Plastic Castle
John Fowles book The Collector
Source: The Collector
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer
Source: An Object of Beauty
“Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.”
Gary D. Schmidt (1957) American writer
Source: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
“I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.”
Tim Gunn (1953) American actor and fashion consultant
Source: Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work
John Keats Ode to a Nightingale
Stanza 6
Poems (1820), Ode to a Nightingale
Source: Complete Poems and Selected Letters
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)
“Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.”
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet
Poetry and Craft (1965)
Source: On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose
“He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery,
And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) Swedish filmmaker
"Introduction" of Four Screenplays (1960). <!-- Simon & Schuster -->
Context: When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings. Music works in the same fashion; I would say that there is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect. And film is mainly rhythm; it is inhalation and exhalation in continuous sequence. Ever since childhood, music has been my great source of recreation and stimulation, and I often experience a film or play musically.
“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
“Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.”
Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst
“There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
Source: Art and Lies
“Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)
“My art and profession is to live.”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book II, Ch. 6
Essais (1595), Book II
Variant: My trade and my art is living.
“Art is whatever you can get away with.”
Marshall McLuhan book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
1960s, The Medium is the Message (1967)
Source: Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
“All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions”
John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
quoted in Advertising Age, Sep. 3, 1976
1970s
Variant: Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century
Context: Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.
“Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
Lester Bangs (1948–1982) American music critic and journalist
“Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.”
Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker
“The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness”
Yann Arthus-Bertrand Earth from Above
Source: Earth from Above
“Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
“Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.”
Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer
Edward Hopper (1882–1967) prominent American realist painter and printmaker
1941 - 1967
Source: 'Statements by Four artists', Edward Hopper, in 'Reality' 1., Spring 1953, p. 8
“You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said.”
William Goldman book The Princess Bride
Source: The Princess Bride
Tristan Tzara (1896–1963) Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist
1910s, Dada Manifesto', 1918
Context: Dada; knowledge of all the means rejected up until now... Dada; abolition of logic, which is the dance of those impotent to create: Dada; of every social hierarchy and equation set up for the sake of values by our valets: Dada; every object, all objects, sentiments, obscurities, apparitions and the precise clash of parallel lines are weapons for the fight: Dada; abolition of memory: Dada; abolition of archaeology: Dada; abolition of prophets: Dada; abolition of the future: Dada; absolute and unquestionable faith in every god that is the immediate product of spontaneity:* Dada; elegant and unprejudiced leap from a harmony to the other sphere... Freedom: Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.
“In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.”
Julia Child (1921–2004) American chef