Art Is Quotes
Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.
Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.
Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.
Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.
So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.
Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist.
When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.
Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the created object.
All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.
The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.
A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.
As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.
This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.
Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.
Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn.
All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.
Die Kunst ist ewig, ihre Formen wandeln sich. (The art is eternal, their shapes are changing.)