Non Realistic Art Quotes

#1. All serious art, music, literature is a critical act. It is so, firstly, in the sense of Matthew Arnold's phrase: "a criticism of life." Be it realistic, fantastic, Utopian or satiric, the construct of the artist is a counter-statement to the world. - Author: George Steiner

#2. 'Abstract' literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract ... a realistic or nonobjective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts. - Author: Richard Diebenkorn

#3. I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the cultural conversation and popular musicians had this absurd level of authority. - Author: David Longstreth

#4. God is a refiner, not an arsonist. - Author: Neva Coyle

#5. I don't have one specific tattooing specialty. I enjoy doing full-color new school, portraits, neo-traditional, realistic, black and gray, ultra detailed art, etc ... but always custom. - Author: William Webb

#6. When you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But when you enter the world of the cartoon , you see yourself. - Author: Scott McCloud

#7. It is not realistic, maybe ... but art doesn't have to be realistic. Romeo and Juliet is not realistic, but it is true ... it shows the essence of falling in love. - Author: Jan Harlan

#8. Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic. - Author: Ray Bradbury

#9. There are too few people working in the area of viral pathogenesis and immunity, too little funding, too many problems, and too little time. - Author: Peter C. Doherty

#10. Let's put it this way: art house theaters are vanishing. They have almost disappeared completely, and that means there's a shift in what audiences want to see. And they have to be aware of that and be realistic. It's as simple as that. - Author: Werner Herzog

#11. Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level - neither too low nor too high. A good goal should be lofty enough to inspire hard work, yet realistic enough to provide solid hope of attainment. - Author: Greg Norman

#12. LOST 2 Irish Hellhounds. Very black, like bear. Huge, like bear. Answer to Alvin and Mohammed. Like to eat everything. Like bear! REWARD! - Author: Christopher Moore

#13. By stripping down an image to its essential "meaning", an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't. - Author: Scott McCloud

#14. The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art. - Author: Saul Bellow

#15. Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical. - Author: Andrei Tarkovsky

#16. Woman has nothing but her affections,
and this makes her at once more loving and less loved. - Author: Florence Nightingale

#17. We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror. - Author: Karl Marx

#18. What people say realistic, may not necessarily the same as what we think. At the end we will know which one Is ourselves, which one is not. - Author: Dee Lestari

#19. Best before: 19 March 2007 - Author: Jojo Moyes

#20. You always feel quite vulnerable when you're naked on a set. You feel quite silly, actually. And with the green screen around you, it's not that sexy. But, it looks stunning. It's art. It's not vulgar. It's not indecent. It's not realistic. It's beautiful, I think. - Author: Eva Green

#21. While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read. - Author: Nicholson Baker

#22. There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild. - Author: Ben Okri

#23. But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or they are in no sense works of art): they must persist as objects of contemplation. - Author: Herbert Read

#24. When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore. - Author: Jonathan Swift

#25. I don't think about myself having any form or style. Although it does tend to be rather realistic; not too stylised at all, it's not as exaggerated as comic art normally is. I try to go for a more realistic looking approach to my art. - Author: Marko Djurdjevic

#26. The demarcation between an art house film and an entertainer has blurred, only because a larger section of the audience has accepted such realistic films. - Author: Arjun Rampal

#27. The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness. - Author: Robert E. Ornstein

#28. I'm not certain you heard me," O'Neill said. - Author: Charles Duhigg

#29. The town believed that good women dont forget things easily, good or bad, lest the taste and savor of forgiveness die from the palate of conscience. - Author: William Faulkner

#30. The literature of the immediate future will inevitably turn away from painting, whether respectably realistic or modern, and from daily life, whether old or the very latest and revolutionary, and turn to artistically realized philosophy. - Author: Yevgeny Zamyatin

#31. I love digestible art, but I make what I think is organic and realistic, and therefore it's incomplete and completely tangent oriented. I try to keep with what I am thinking about that day - which changes too fast. - Author: Brian Chippendale

#32. Children seem to need, then, a delicate balance between the realistic and the fantastic in their art; enough of the realistic to know that the story matters, enough of the fantastic to make what matters wonderful - Author: Eric S. Rabkin

#33. To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and an aspiration toward beauty were inseparable from civilization. In America the word art was distorted to mean artificial. - Author: Anais Nin

#34. Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art. - Author: Clement Greenberg