Art Distortion Quotes

#1. We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.

Marc Jacobs

#2. There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Camille Paglia

#3. We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

Chuck Jones

#4. The answer to violence is even more democracy. Even more humanity.

Jens Stoltenberg

#5. The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.

Aldrich Ames

#6. I want each of you to go through life making the most of your individuality. Like it or not, you will go out into the real world and be treated as an adult. Adults show each other no mercy. If you fail to cultivate within yourself a fight-back mentality, society will end up controlling you.

Tadao Ando

#7. Jesus didn't go around condemning people. The Bible says it's the goodness of God that leads people to repentance.

Joel Osteen

#8. Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.

Marcel Duchamp

#9. You would never be past but you're my present, future & forever

Subhasis Das

#10. Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.

Harold Bloom

#11. I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle ... In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.

Henry Moore

#12. Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,
the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.

Theodore Parker

#13. Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality ... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection ... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.

Jean Tinguely

#14. The churches weren't going to accept me looking like a street person with long hair and faded jeans. They did not like the music I was recording. And I had no desire to preach the gospel to the converted.

Larry Norman

#15. Throughout the performance Levin felt like a deaf person watching a dance. He was quite perplexed when the music stopped and felt very tired as a result of strained attention quite unrewarded.

Leo Tolstoy

#16. The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art, be accompanied by distortion of the natural form. For, therein is nature reborn.

Paul Klee

#17. I am in a sorry state, for I do not even know what I do not know. - St. Augustine

John Dufresne

#18. If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic.

Mary Norris

#19. Then love of pleasure sways each heart, and we From that no more than from ourselves can fly. Blameless when govern'd well. But where it errs Extravagant, and wildly leads to ill, Public or private, there its curbing pow'r Cool reason must exert.

John Armstrong