“Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.”
Doris Lessing book The Golden Notebook
Source: The Golden Notebook
“The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal…The business of art is to appeal to the soul.”
The New York Times (10 December 1916) From "Godlessness Mars Most Contemporary Poetry." http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9A0CE2D7153BE233A25753C1A9649D946796D6CF
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Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) eighteenth President of the French Republic
La politique, quand elle est un art et un service, non point une exploitation, c'est une action pour un idéal à travers des réalités. <br class="br">Press conference, June 30 1955 <br class="br">Fifth Republic and other post-WW2 <br class="br">Source: "Le Général de Gaulle et la construction de l'Europe" https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wg4ZAQAAIAAJ (1967), pg 33. note: 1950s
Victor Hugo book William Shakespeare
Homère est un des génies qui résolvent ce beau problème de l’art, le plus beau de tous peut-être, la peinture vraie de l’humanité obtenue par le grandissement de l’homme, c’est-à-dire la génération du réel dans l’idéal.
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William Shakespeare (1864)
“Any idealism is a proper subject for art.”
Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) writer
Source: Out of the East, Books and Habits, p. 22.
“Making money is art. And working is art. And good business is the best art.”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), p. 92
Context: Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist. After I did the thing called 'art' or whatever it's called, I went into business art. I wanted to be an Art Businessman or a Business Artist. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. During the hippies era people put down the idea of business – they'd say 'Money is bad', and 'Working is bad', but making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Andrei Tarkovsky book Sculpting in Time
Source: Sculpting in Time (1986), p. 192
Context: Art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist's version, the more clearly perhaps must we see the ideal that stands in opposition — otherwise life becomes impossible! Art symbolises the meaning of our existence.
“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”
John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic