Art Theory Quotes
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Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?
— Alice James
Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction.
— Steven Pinker
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
— Rudolf Arnheim
Psychotherapy is an art enlightened by wisdom, theory and research.
— Barbara Temaner Brodley
Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.
— Douglas Brinkley
How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them?
— Jon Bon Jovi
It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it.
— Wassily Kandinsky
A student asked me recently why somebody always dies in my books. I said, because somebody is always dying in my life.
— Chris Crutcher
Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.
— Robert Breault
She was still developing her sundial theory of art, which would count no hours but the sunny ones.
— Wallace Stegner
What you don't learn in art theory is how too big a compliment can hurt more than a slap to the face.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Art is what appeals to the a priori.
— Raheel Farooq
Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements.
— Karl Popper
I was always intensely Romantic, even when I was too young to understand what that meant.
— George R R Martin
It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
— Pablo Picasso
It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.
— Oscar Wilde
I guess that blows your theory, Paige. Niceness trumps art.
— Caragh M. O'Brien
Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.
— Arlo Guthrie
The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.
— John Frohnmayer
The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Oh gravity, thou art a heartless bitch.
— Jim Parsons
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
— Edmund Burke
My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.
— Alexander Calder
Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.
— Nicole Krauss
Art is the expression of an enormous preference.
— Wyndham Lewis
There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.
— Pauline Kael
In art, practice always comes before theory.
— Pablo Picasso