The Art Quotes
Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.
So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.
The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.
You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.
The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.
...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.
Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where you are.
Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.
Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.
Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.
When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.
Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.
It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing.
Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds.
Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth.
I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most radical thing.
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
