Art Is Quotes
Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.
All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.
At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.
Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without the arts.
Im always trying to find connections between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the performer, but the one looking at it.
That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.
The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo changes according to advances in the sciences.
Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery.
The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.
There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.
Art is a place for children to learn to trust their ideas, themselves, and to explore what is possible.
The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.
A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.
I've been arrested a few times, but I've never been in real trouble. Because what I do is art and even if it is illegal, Art is a universal activity, and artists are generally respected.
Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness
To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary.
In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.
Something impacts me emotionally, art is a kind of outlet, and I figure it's the same for a lot of artists. The way my mind deals with things is cinematic.
We are the measure of all things. And the beauty of our creation, of our art is proportional to the beauty of ourselves of our souls.
The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.
Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.
When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart.
A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.
The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is actually the artwork.
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.
