Art Is Quotes
Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.
Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.
You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style.
The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.
Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.
For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.
The most available example of how poetry works for a poet is yourself, and yet you'll probably be the last one to know exactly how you're serving the art and how the art is serving you.
What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.
Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's not competitive, it's something that you'll keep doing.
I’ve never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but the attempted embodiment of a vision