Gertrude Stein Quotes

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.

I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and of course Stieglitz. Stieglitz always considered photography to be an art form and is the "father" of the creative concepts of the twentieth century.

I find that it's a very odd thing to think of competition when you're talking about what I still think of as art. I don't think of competing with actors or filmmakers at all. You do compete, in a way, at the box office, but we're far enough apart when both films are coming out that I'm not concerned with that either.

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part of the realm of art as it is of technology; the fusion of thinking and feeling.

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

I look at everything in an artistic way.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Fine artists reflect, and then they act. Fashion photographers - we act, and then we reflect.

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Art is science made clear.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.