Art Wolfe Quotes

#1. Good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete?
What! hath some wolfe thy tender lambes ytorne?
Or is thy bagpype broke, that soundes so sweete?
Or art thou of thy loved lasse forlorne?

Edmund Spenser

#2. The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity.

Tom Wolfe

#3. I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one.

Tom Wolfe

#4. Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Thomas Wolfe

#5. A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.

Ian Fleming

#6. I often had to pass over photographs because in a mass of animals invariably one would be wandering in the wrong direction, thereby disrupting the pattern I was trying to achieve. Today the ability to digitally alter this disruption is at hand.

Art Wolfe

#7. All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The moralists, censorship and oppression, technology, and now poverty have all tried to destroy her. Only we, the actors and audiences, have kept her alive.

Gene Wolfe

#8. For me making a digital photo is like making a watercolor ... It's not a painting, and it's not a photo. It's something altogether new.

Art Wolfe

#9. Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#10. The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Tom Wolfe

#11. It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.

Art Wolfe

#12. Don't be concerned with how many followers you have, be concerned with where you are leading them.

Kim Coles

#13. I don't want to seem always to be criticizing your methods of voice production, Jeeves, I said, but I must inform you that that 'Well, sir' of yours is in many respects fully as unpleasant as your 'Indeed, sir?

P.G. Wodehouse

#14. By working hard, by making the right moves, you can create your own luck, I think. But certainly luck plays a part.

Richard Branson

#15. Art is a creed, not a craft.

Tom Wolfe

#16. Excuse my charisma, vodka with a spritzer. Swagger down pat, call my shit Patricia. Young Money militia and I am the commissioner. You don't want start Weezy 'cause the F is for finisher
So misunderstood but what's a world without enigma?

Lil' Wayne

#17. I have lost my dewdrop, cries the flower to the morning sky that lost all its stars

Rabindranath Tagore

#18. Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than as penny-whistle whimsy.

Thomas M. Disch

#19. Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs

Art Wolfe

#20. 'No Hands' art goes straight back to Warhol. He was the first to use elves.

Tom Wolfe

#21. I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.

Edward Albee

#22. When you spend your life in a creative mode all the time mindless leaf blowing can be a welcome break.

Art Wolfe

#23. I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.

Elsie De Wolfe

#24. Art is not eternal.

Tom Wolfe

#25. God accepts us unconditionally, and in his view we are all precious and priceless. Focus on this and you will not waste any time and effort trying to be someone you're not.

Rick Warren

#26. Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other.

Rumi

#27. I've done 80 books and if anyone has entertained the idea of owning one of my books, I think this is the book that covers all the bases. I'm very proud of it.

Art Wolfe

#28. It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.

Bernhard Langer