Quotes about art
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Simone Weil1909–1943The Pre-War Notebook (1933-1939), published in First and Last Notebooks (1970) edited by Richard Rees- Simone Weil1909–1943On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968), “The responsibility of writers,” p. 167
Ai Weiweiborn 1957“Artist Ai Weiwei: China Crushes Dissenting Voices,” in: Fox News, June 11, 2012.- Ai Weiweiborn 1957Coonan, Clifford. “An Artist’s Struggle for Justice in China.” Independent, February 27, 2010.
Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
Ai Weiweiborn 1957Life’s Work: Ai Weiwei, 2012I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
Ai Weiweiborn 1957Osnos, Evan. “It’s Not Beautiful: An Artist Takes On the System.” New Yorker, May 24, 2010, 54–63.- Ai Weiweiborn 1957Truth to Power, 2008
A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a filmmaker an army.
A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Kanye Westborn 19772009 MTV Video Music Awards (September 13, 2009)Art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.
Rebecca West1892–1983“The Strange Necessity,”, in The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews (1928)True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
Edith Wharton1862–1937The Writing of Fiction (1925), ch. I
Joss Whedonborn 1964Reddit IAmA (c. April 2012)
Walt Whitman1819–1892Song of Myself (1855), Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Song of Myself, 52In context
