Art Is Quotes

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

All art is exploitation.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability

The supreme morality of art is to endure.

That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.

The instinct that pulls us toward art is the impulse to evolve, to learn, to heighten and elevate our consciousness. The Ego hates this. Because the more awake we become, the less we need the Ego.

Art is a form of consciousness.

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.

The only enemy of art is taste.

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.

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.

While it is true that commercial art is always in danger of ending up as a prostitute, it is equally true that noncommercial art is always in danger of ending up as an old maid.

There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.

There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.

I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art is more concerned with epistemology than ethics or politics or even aesthetics.

Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.

Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.

Art is not the spiritual side of business.

Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.

Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.

The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.

Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.

Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.

Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.

All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.

Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.

Art is the most valued thing in the world...it is the expression of the highest form of human energy,the creative power nearest to the divine.The power is within - the question is how to reach it.

The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.

The apprehension of... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually the result of... prolonged tuition.

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

The art is in selecting what is worthwhile to take the trouble about.

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.

What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.

What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas.

Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because the very fact that the art is made seems to contradict despair.

As you can see, at my age - 48 - Art is still one big experiment.

Art is really a battle.

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

Time is not important, but art is.