Art Is Quotes
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.
Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.
In some respects I will never die. Because art is immortal. What we leave behind and what we create - the energy that we put out into the world is eternal.
The most beautiful thing about art is that there is no saturation point in creating!
Teaching art is a shared experience. Our ability to share our own personal vision and interact with others through art can become realized.
Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.
Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.
The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.
Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer but never judge it.
I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it.
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads turned backwards.
. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.
The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.
A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact and art is not made in a vacuum.
Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand.
Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.
As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.
I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.
The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.
The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for.
Art is an evolution of techniques and materials from past to present and we can't stop learning.
