DAY ONE Part One

Art Quotes (There are many more)

Directions : Read the following quotes.
1. Find 3 (three) that you think exemplify your attitude on art.
2. Highlight, circle or underline each of the 3 quotes you choose.
3. Pick a partner compare your quotes & explain to each other HOW/WHY these quotes fit your concept of art.
4. Be ready to discuss & defend your opinion.
(You have 20 minutes to finish all 4 parts)
Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us. (Roy Adzak)
All art is autobiographical. (Anonymous)
"I don't know anything about art, but I know what I like," really means "I don't know anything about art, but I like what I know."
(Anonymous)
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends. (Aristotle)
Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman. (Jeet Aulakh)
The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious. (Lester Bangs)
Art is not "about." Art is. (Darby Bannard)
Art should be waged like war. (Mark Boyle)
Art is meant to disturb, science reassures. (Georges Braque)
Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it. (Bertolt Brecht)
If all the world were clear, art would not exist. (Albert Camus)
A picture is a work of art, not because it is "modern," nor because it is "ancient," but because it is a sincere expression of human
feeling. (John F. Carlson)
Art is the triumph over chaos. (John Cheever)
Art knows. Art sees beyond... Art points us in new directions that make us think and question. (Warren Criswell)
Art is a necessity an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being
enlightened without the arts. (Ken Danby)
Art influences everything. (Ginia A. Davis)
Everyone is an artist (Marcel Duchamp)
If it has a use it isn't art. (Patterson Ewen)
How important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course I
could be prejudiced. I am a visual art. (Kermit the Frog)
Art = a mad search for individualism. (Paul Gauguin)
Art - Inspired by nature, born of the soul. (Hap Hagood)
Art isn't paint; it's love. (Philip Hicken)

Art is not a thing; it is a way. (Elbert Hubbard)

For me the artworld is like a huge river, which began somewhere in the past and keeps flowing towards the future. (Ilya Kabakov)
Art is about mystery. (Marisol)
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. Michelangelo
Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody. (Piet Mondrian)
Art is an experience, not an object. (Robert Motherwell)
Art is the sex of the imagination. (George Jean Nathan)
Art is ultimately schizophrenic. (Oliver)
Art doesn't have to match the couch. (Penny Pennington)
"Art is a lie which makes us see the truth." (Picasso)
Art should make people's lives better, especially the artist's. (Todd Plough)
Art is art. Everything else is everything else. (Ad Reinhardt)
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life. (M. C. Richards)
Art is not the bread, but the wine of life. (Jean Paul Richter)
Art, being quite useless, except to the soul, is the highest of all human endeavors. (Bruce M. Rogers)
All art is political. (Jayce Salloum)
Art cannot be modern, art is timeless. (Egon Schiele)
Art must not stop at the level of pleasing eyes. (Li Shan)
Art isn't everything. It's just about everything. (Gertrude Stein)
Art is the only means by which one soul can truly touch another. (Curtis Verdun)
Art comes from the heart. The biggest part of heART is ART. (Gary Walters)
Art is what you can get away with (Andy Warhol also Marshall McLuham)
Art never expresses anything but itself. (Oscar Wilde)
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. (Frank Zappa)
People who love art really do need it in the same way they need oxygen. (Martin Zimet)

Keep this sheet in your notebook for reference.