Art Is Quotes

It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment!

I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.

Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion without a purpose.

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit.

Art is not an anaemic cult but a dynamic culture.

Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

The art is long, life is short

Today we say all art is political. But I'd say all art has to do with ethics. Which after all really comes to the same thing. It's a matter of attitudes.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

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.

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 about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.

When Art becomes a Science it is no longer an Art.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

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.

But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.

I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

Art is as natural as sunshine and as vital as nourishment.

We need to remind ourselves that contemporary art is first of all a form of conceptual gymnastics, in which we learn to coexist with what we don't understand.

The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize what they know.

Art is man's refuge from adversity.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.

Art is the more spiritual side of education that really does saves lives and makes amazing individuals.

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and me.

Criticism is easy, art is difficult.

Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.