Art Is Quotes
Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.
Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul.
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.
In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them.
One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.
I believe that every innovative thought comes from a creative mindset....A creative mindset is what drives our world, and art is the base of that.
...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.
Art is in the process of redefining our relationships to each other ... The creative minds are bubbling, bubbling, and I know the soup that's coming up next time is going to feed a lot more of us.
Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.
Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting.
The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.
Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects.
No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.
Art is communication spoken by man for humanity in a language raised above the everyday happening.
The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.
The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives can be evoked and contained.
We're not choosing the art, the art is choosing us. The pieces are choosing the walls where they hang.
What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don't know. Art is an essence, a center.
What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.
My opinion of art is that a man should have love for it, because my idea is that he paints from his heart and mind.
Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...
A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.
The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.
