Art Is Quotes
Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself.
We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of Eternal Light.
I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to create critical consciousness as much as we think we do.
Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.
Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.
Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.
A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created.
Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.
The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.
I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us and making us examine ourselves.
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.
All art is advertising. It stands for a particular point of view. Art that exploits badness is advertising badness.
All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.
I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.
A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first step, and then you have a kind of hard road of execution.
The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.
I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.
The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?
Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.
