Category Detail for Art (8 Quotes)

  Author Category Subject Content
1 Friedrich Nietzsche Art Art We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
2 Ayn Rand Art Art One of the cardinal pleasures of life is offered to man by works of art. Art, at its highest potential, as the projection of things as they might and ought to be, can provide man with an invaluable emotional fuel. But, again, the kind of art works one responds to, depends on one's deepest values and premises.
3 Leo Tolstoy Art Art The activity of art is based on the fact that a man, receiving through his sense of hearing or sight another man's expression of feeling, is capable of experiencing the emotion which moved the man who expressed it. To take the simplest example; one man laughs, and another who hears becomes merry; or a man weeps, and another who hears feels sorrow. A man is excited or irritated, and another man seeing him comes to a similar state of mind.
4 Robert Henri Art Art Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money. There are ever so many better ways...If one is a painter this purest freedom must exist at the time of painting. This is as much as to say that a painter may give up his hope of making his living as a painter but must make it some other way. This is generally true, although some do, by a freak of appreciation, make enough while going their way to live sufficiently well. Perhaps this happens, but I am not sure but that there is some curtailing of the purity of the freedom. I was once asked by a young artist whether he could hope to make any money out of his work if he continued in his particular style of painting. He happened to be a man of considerable talent and had great enthusiasm for his work. But I knew there was no public enthusiasm for such work. I remembered he had told me that before he got really into art he had made a living by designing labels for cans, tomato cans and the like. I advised him to make tomato-can labels and live well that he might be free to paint as he liked.
5 Velasquez General Art Imitate nothing or nobody, paint all people and things as you see them.
6 Orson Whitney Lds Art We will yet have Miltons and Shakespeares of our own. God's ammunition is not exhausted. His brightest spirits are held in reserve for the latter times. In God's name and by His help we will build up literature whose top shall touch heaven, though its foundation may now be low on earth.
7 Boyd K. Packer Lds Art But few have captured the spirit of the gospel of Jesus Christ and the restoration of it in music, in art, in literature. They have not, therefore, even though they were gifted made a lasting contribution to the onrolling of the church and kingdom of God in the dispensation of the fullness of times. They have therefore missed doing what they might have done, and they have missed being what they might have become.?
8 Boyd K. Packer Lds Art You who have such talents might well ask, 'Whence comes this gift'? And gift it is. You may have cultivated it and developed it, but it was given to you. Most of us do not have it. You were not more deserving than we, but you are a good deal more responsible. If you use your gift properly, opportunities for service are opened that will be beneficial eternally for you and for others.