Art Is Quotes
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.
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.
Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.
The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.
The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.
The art is the challenge which you must meet every day: the technique you should learn to control with time. The science and the art of photography are really one, and not opposed to each other.
My art is different than yours; it consists not in defeating others, but in not being defeated.
Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.
All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.
Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot.
At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.
All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.
Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious.
In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.