Art Is Quotes

Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.

Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.

Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.

The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.

Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness

Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.

I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.

You can't really have art without having a sense of community as art is for others to enjoy as well.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.

Art is really predicated upon the experiences that you've had in your life. You only have to share what you've consumed.

I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.

Art is an adventure that never seems to end.

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.

Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.

Art is science made flesh.

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

I think the benefits are tremendous, and the power of accessibility in art is one of it's most explosive and insidious attributes.

Art is not disposable.

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

Art is a self-replicating force.

Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.

Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.

I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.

Kaz's art is a powerful example of discipline and freedom. His classical calligraphy captures the inner movement and stillness of the brush and mind.

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

My art became very public.

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.

In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.