Art Is Quotes

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

Art is a line around your thoughts.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

Art is the flower... life the green leaf.

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.

Public art is ephemeral by nature. Google 's new project not only catalogs an artist's work but archives it and allows people to see the art long after it has disappeared.

Art is much, but love is more.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.

Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART.

Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion.

Art is doing something you really believe in.

Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.

I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense.

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

No great work of art is ever finished.

Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

Art is literacy of the heart

Art is a way of recognizing oneself.

Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe.

The making of art is no different than prayer.

Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

Art is my God, Music is my religion.

Art is born out of an ill-designed world.

Art is the highest form of hope.

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication.

Organized perception is what art is all about.

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

Art is an experience, not an object.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.