Sacrifice For Art Quotes

#1. The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.

Alma Gluck

#2. If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

Yann Martel

#3. A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility

Haile Selassie

#4. You have to be ready to go through peaks and valleys along the way. Be ready to sacrifice some of the things in life that are considered normal for most people for the first while. And understand the business of the film industry, because studying the art and your craft alone isn't enough anymore.

Kyle Cassie

#5. With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.

James G. Frazer

#6. The arts of Mexico are heavy with the weight of the past, of gods that demanded the sacrifice of a thousand beating hearts in a day, of a world that ended every fifty-two years, of warriors who rushed into battle wearing the heads of jaguars or clothed in the flayed skins of their human victims.

Biloine W. Young

#7. She must disappear for a time from the human surface,
And sacrifice everything for this,
To recreate herself from the depths of her world.

David Foenkinos

#8. Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit meaning and yet not sacrifice anything essential to its effect as art. Here, as before, successful art can be depended upon to explain itself.

Clement Greenberg

#9. If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.

Miles Davis

#10. Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. I think there are definite parallels between sport and art. There's a real sense of sacrifice. There's a real sense of dedication that is needed in sport that I think you can attribute to art. I think so much of it is about bravery and courage, being an actor.

Matt Smith

#12. The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a single sentence, a complete sentence for a single word...

Jean Baudrillard

#13. Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue.

Jeanette Winterson

#14. All art is, indeed, a monotony in external things for the sake of an interior variety, a sacrifice of gross effects to subtle effects, an asceticism of the imagination.

W.B.Yeats

#15. In art as in life the valid sacrifices are those that bring no income.

Jean Rostand

#16. Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

C. G. Jung

#17. Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

Oscar Wilde

#18. I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials.

Alice Neel

#19. Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

Dick Morris

#20. The art of chess is in knowing which is the most valuable piece in play, then having the courage to sacrifice it for the win.

Thomm Quackenbush

#21. Much comment has been given lately to the Code of the Samurai,
the Art of Death which makes our soldiers exult in self- sacrifice; but scarcely any attention has been drawn to Teaism, which represents so much of our Art of Life.

Okakura Kakuzo