Art Is Quotes
Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul.
One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.
Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.
It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.
I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made is a piece of art.
I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.
Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or hurt anyone.
Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?
For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a pen and wrote a story had nothing pragmatic in it.
Currencies are things that you use to pay for other things; commodities are things that you buy. If art is going to be one or the other, it's going to be a commodity, not a currency.
No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.
The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal. The business of art is to appeal to the soul.
A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that you can't tell the teacher from the student.
And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.
Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an artist and your life is art.
Music and acting are the same thing: you must understand that art is only the search, not the final form.
I endeavor to trigger positive, empowering, life-giving emotion - I believe art is that powerful.
Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.
It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.
All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour , so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology .
Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.
The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.
No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.
The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.
Art is created in a state of delirium. Anyting else is the restoration of monuments. Collectors are artist that do not have a home. they have to make one for themselves.
Only through apprehending, by means of present-day creations, how art is created, can the creations of other periods be genuinely appreciated.
I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.
Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.
