Art Is Quotes
The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized, forgotten, invisible and impossible to tell.
All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.
Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit.
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
My art is for anybody, it's for people who wouldn't go into an art gallery. It's art for the people.
The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.
Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.
The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.
Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.
The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.
I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.
It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in which we become what we see or hear.
There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed.
My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.
Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.
I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.
Whatever art is, it is no longer something primarily to be looked at. Stared at, perhaps, but not primarily looked at
Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.