Quotes by Art Art should stimulate. Ala Bashir shouldart Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history. The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity. The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection. Alain Badiou realreflectionart Art attests to what is inhuman in man. Alain Badiou inhumanmenart The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art. Alain Badiou cinemaart Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness. Alain de Botton wholenesspromiseart A good half of the art of living is resilience. Alain de Botton resiliencehalfart In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion. Alain de Botton devotionworldart No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment. Alain de Botton envypainart In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge. Alain de Botton painphilosophyart The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us. Alain de Botton speakknowingart Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds of hierarchies based on sets of values unrecognised by, and critical of, those of the majority.. They have provided us with persuasive and consoling reminders that there is more than one way of succeeding in life. Alain de Botton majorityphilosophyart One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully. Alain de Botton importantsufferingart The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we haven't been introduced. Humans will only respond to art, to people who are skilled in making you care. Alain de Botton dreampeopleart If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination. Alain de Botton imaginationworldart Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out. Alain de Botton choicesmightart Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly. Alain de Botton feelingsmightart A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily. Alain de Botton majoritywould-beart Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid. Alain LeRoy Locke caricaturesprejudiceart Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver. Alain LeRoy Locke brokenimaginationart The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical opinion - that it is hard to imagine such an art can survive for long without some radical change. To many, the solution seems simple enough: such a change being impossible, the art of the novel is dying. Alain Robbe-Grillet changesimpleart«1112131415161718192021»
