Tag: art
Avett Brothers interview
“That’s why we make art, music, film…to connect. I mean, our contribution and our duty, above all, is to love people. And our contribution is to make things that relate to people. And through those things, that’s our vehicle to actually directly, physically, emotionally, connect with them.” —Scott Avett, September 2019
quote from Alberto Giacometti
“When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.” —Alberto Giacometti
2019 Kennedy Center Honors
“We would hope that art would bring us together as a nation, and make us all a little closer. We don’t want to, by any means, undermine the freedoms of the artist to see challenging things and to speak their truth, but at the same time it’s nice to see people brought together.” —LL Cool J, 12/8/2019
quote from Keith Haring
“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.” —Keith Haring
quote from Leo Tolstoy
“Art must destroy violence, only it can do it.” —Leo Tolstoy
quote from John Lennon
“Life doesn’t imitate art…it is art!” —John Lennon
Joan Miro quote
“More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.” —Joan Miro
Leonardo da Vinci quote
“Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.” — Leonardo da Vinci
quote from Olafur Eliasson
“Art helps us identify with one another and expands our notion of we – from the local to the global.” — Olafur Eliasson, 2016