Art Is Quotes

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

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.

Art is nothing but humanized science.

Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant.

Pop art is about liking things.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

Art is not so much talent as character… it's what you are, the qualities of the person.

The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.

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.

My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement.

Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.

Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.

Art is an indecent exposure of the consciousness.

The highest condition of art is artlessness.

Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.

All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive.

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

Fashion is more art than art is

Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.

It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.

To think about "oblivion" is to think about "what art is".

Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.

Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.

Sometimes art is just about getting a reaction, that's really the end-all be-all.

The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.

Art is really whispering, not shouting.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else.

Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

Art is always an energy exchange.

All art is propaganda.

If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.

The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.