Art Is Quotes

One of the challenges to our nation today is overcoming the notion that art is kind of a nice-to-have, when in reality art is a need-to-have.

Art is a conduit toward human needs and perception.

Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

Art is a journey of discovery.

If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.

Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.

The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics

What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.

Art is good but it isn't the best.

Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.

Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.

Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.

Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence in the world.

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

Making art is an act of faith.

Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.

There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.

The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is as important as, if not more important than, what is put in.

My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation.

The greatest art is philosophy.

I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.

God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness.

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.

Art is a step in the known toward the unknown

I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.

I love art. But I love it because it is the expression of a living philosophy. It's the leftovers. Art is what's left over from life.

If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.

Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people.

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

All art is infested by other art.

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you tell stories.

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.