Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.
– Jasper Johns
Related Quotes:
- Art is either a complaint or appeasement. – Jasper Johns
- I don’t want my work to be an exposure of my feelings. – Jasper Johns
- Let go of the past, even if it offers you Heaven; embrace the future, even if it offers you Hell. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- If one Godfather offers you an opportunity and another Godfather offers you an advantage, go with the former. – Amit Kalantri
- Life doesn’t offers charity, it offers chance. – Amit Kalantri
- Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
- I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
- What art offers is space -“ a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike
- Beauty was a curse to be borne, not a blessing. – Rebecca Johns
- Death drives desire. – Rosemary A Johns
- Blood Life is not hunger. It’s freedom – Rosemary A Johns
- You know those vampire myths? Bollocks to them. – Rosemary A Johns
- -¦dancing in the carnage and the flames. – Rosemary A Johns
- Do you feel it? That roaring call? – Rosemary A Johns
- Blood Life is not hunger. It’s freedom. – Rosemary A Johns
- Some of most valuable gifts come wrapped in the ugliest paper. – Navonne Johns
- Character is less about what we do wrong And All about what we make right…. – Navonne Johns
- There’s an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I’ll sabotage the hell out of them just to make the music more of a sanctuary. – Daniel Johns
- Those who claim to be closest to God are furthest from Heaven. – Navonne Johns
- Basically there can be no categories such as ‘religious’ art and ‘secular’ art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore ‘religious. – Madeleine LEngle
- Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. – Joanna Russ
- You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art. – Seth Godin
- Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself. – Edward Hirsch
- I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It’s art if you see it as art. – Andy Warhol
- You know what? I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m gonna make art, arty art art! – Andy Biersack
- Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art’s sake: it exists for people’s sake. – Julian Barnes
- Don’t just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art. (Exchange any words you want for ‘create art’ and see if it fits). – Richie Norton
- Art is magic, and art is powerful. Art saves lives- I really believe that. It gives us courage and compassion we might not have on our own. – Sarah Cross
- Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human. – Jonathan Smith
- By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound. – Angelus Silesius
- CUSTOMER (to her friend): What’s this literary criticism section? Is it for books that complain about other books? – Jen Campbell
- Courage is to act on your beliefs or opinions especially in spite of criticism.Not to act on someones idea of what your courage should be…. – Victor Antonio Hayes
- Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need. – Marshall B Rosenberg
- I do not take constructive criticism from people who have never constructed anything. – Eric Thomas
- If you are strong enough to face Fear of Failure, Fear of Rejections, and Fear of Criticism, that’s the sign of Success. – Sivaprakash Sidhu
- In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself. – John Steinbeck
- Choose criticism wisely, it might help you improve some elements of what you do. – Unarine Ramaru
- The trouble with most of us is that we’d rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. – Norman Vincent Peale
- Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you. – Bryant McGill
- Do not allow criticism to stop you from living your best. – Lailah Gifty Akita