Quotes by Art I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art. Alanis Morissette people art thinking The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple of years to even understand how my art form I could process any of this. When the world changed, eliciting laughter with subjects that were funny to me before 9/11 just didnt seem good enough. Albert Brooks laughter couple art Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well. Albert Brooks cutting together art Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in galleries than can surgery be learned by casual visits to a hospital. Albert C. Barnes effort appreciation art The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution Albert C. Barnes philadelphia museums art Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man. Albert C. Barnes satisfaction men art The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts Albert C. Barnes pedestal museums art If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art. Albert Camus would-be art needs It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about. Albert Camus time art needs In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary. Albert Camus criticism real art You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters — all that matters, really is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest - women , art, success — is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries. Albert Camus mistake art thinking After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent. Albert Camus pain lying art The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. Albert Camus responsibility men art The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal. Albert Camus triumph design art A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. Albert Camus simple work art To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes. Albert Camus men mean art At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd. Albert Camus beauty lying art It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore. Albert Camus sea giving art We have art in order not to die of life. Albert Camus dies order art The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art Albert Camus choices ideas art «1516171819202122232425»