Art Is Quotes
The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.
The art of walking on quicksand is still beyond me. What I learned is only how difficult this art is to master and how hard people need to struggle to learn it.
Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'
As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons.
If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.
I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.
You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.
The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.
Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.
All that is happening in art is part of a process of exploration and discovery. I hope to live for a few more years so that I can catch glimpses of the oncoming future.
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.
Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.
The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.
Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.