Art Is Quotes

It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again.

For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.

A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.

The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.

In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know.

Art is craft, not inspiration.

What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small children. They are the first and purest source of artistic creation.

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes.

Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.

Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions opened thoroughly.

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

The fact is that even art is subject to fashion.

Art is the escape from personality.

Art is difficult. Its not entertainment.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

Most people in America think Art is a man's name.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.

I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.

A work of art is a renewable source of energy.

Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind.

All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.

Art is a leap into the dark.

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched.

Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet, then what tools do we have to reach people, to appeal to them and all of their senses?

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.

Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.

Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is - among other things - continuity, and unthinkable without it.

I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.

If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse.

Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life

A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.