Art Is Quotes
All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.
Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.
An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.
Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.
The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.
My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.
Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.
The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.
Making an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology...Art is anything that you can do well. Anything that you can do with Quality.
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.
Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.
Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.
The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective.
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have
Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.
My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist’s most profound life experiences.