What Is Art Quotes

Art is a harmony parallel with nature

Creativity is one of the highest transmissions of love.

Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and y

Analysis is the art of creation through destruction.

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can.

Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it." Henri Matisse

I’m going to punch words in your ear holes.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living

The inner drama is the meaning of the exterior event.

Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living.

Art is only important to the extent that it aids in the liberation of our people.

[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye'dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.

Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it.

Art is a picture of the spirit.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.

...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.

Art teaches something we all need to learn, especially about people who are different from ourselves: "To see things the way they truly are, sometimes you have to look more deeply.

Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism.

Life itself is an art form.

This place is alive, " Sunni said in wonder. "Things are moving. Inside a painting.

It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?""Indignation, " said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.

A metamorphosis... The shining butterfly of the soul from the pupa of the body. Larva, pupa, imago. An image of art.

He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting.–--Manet to Monet, on Renoir---

Art is affirmation.

The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and refresh the language.

It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.

Be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.

An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.

Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.

He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.

The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.

Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.

All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.

If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white

A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone.

You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you. That's what are can do.

I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.

I think that's what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise.

Don't we all know that art is dangerous. You play it - then you live it.

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. You know, it doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define, but there you are, right there, in the meantime.

Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't survive.

I know I will always be attracted to the unknown as it does often verify what I am or what else I could be.

Most great artists define a new and unique region of hell.

WE ARE the PULSE of the TIMES!

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.

I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!

The Baron told her that only art meant anything.

What modern art required was an imagination drawn to possibilities, rather than braced by smug presumptions.