Art Is Quotes

Art is a profession, not a shrine.

Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people.

perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.

Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

Art is the questioning of culture

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.

Art is nothing without form.

[Art is] an attempt to escape from life.

I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

The divine art is the story.

We know the principles of coaching. The art is knowing when to apply them.

That's where the most beautiful art is always created, when you have someone not worried about what the outcome is.

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.

Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.

I think that the older I get and the more comfortable I get with myself, the more I realize that art is about relinquishing control of your emotions and being vulnerable and innocent.

Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

Art is something that everyone should be able to have access to.

Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in.

All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder.

Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.

A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.

Making art is a journey.

If some of this art is not for you, that's fine. Art appreciation is a subjective matter, and we each bring our own experience, knowledge and taste to the party.

I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing in all of it if you expect to make a living.

For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained.

What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority.

Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here.

Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.

Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.

I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.

Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.

It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.

Art is the Godhead as revealed in the works of man.

Art is 110 percent sweat.

My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that.

Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning.