Quotes
Quotes about Man
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.
For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand.
All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie, and are connect as it were by some relationship. [Lat., Etenim omnes artes, quae ad humanitatem pertinent, habent quoddam commune vinculum, et quasi cognatione quadam inter se continentur.]
His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland; Still born to improve in every part, His pencil out faces, his manners are heart.
The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm; The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.
I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art.
One day the world will look upon research on animals as it now looks upon research on human beings. Da Vinci.
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it "joy"?.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
