#art

In art, the obvious is a sin. ↗

— Edward Dmytryk

#obvious #sin

I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee. ↗

— Edward Dmytryk

#been #before #committee #fbi #few

Even for women without children, trading hours that produce income for hours that produce “only” art seems like a foolish decision. What a loss for the world, though, to have women's voices silenced because art is our last priority. ↗

— Holly Robinson

#gender #women #art

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#artist #artists-life #insight #art

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#news #novelty #photography #shock #art

Sometimes when you get in a fight with a skunk, you can't tell who started it. ↗

— Lloyd Doggett

#get #skunk #sometimes #started #tell

El hombre no conoce la dignidad de la desesperación definitiva sino es con el indigno motivo de haber de morir; con sus juguetes de la ciencia, del arte, del progreso (la más estúpida de sus ideas), de la reforma social, que le parecen tan graves y que adula y realza utilizando el contraste con la frivolidad de las preocupaciones femeninas puestas en el bello vestir, lo que solamente pide él es no morir nunca. Es un entretenido y un longevista y por lo tanto un ente sin pasión. ↗

— Macedonio Fernández

#art

Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will. ↗

— Robert Doisneau

#image #imagination #just #make #more

I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It's not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity. ↗

— Ray Dolby

#desire #developer #developments #fascination #get

May, will you please, kindly DIG it," he remembered one of them saying, "and hold up on all those wonderful seven-dollar questions? If you got to ask what IS it all the time, you'll never get time to KNOW. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#groovy #quality #art