What Is Art Quotes

Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines.

The impossible is what we achieve through art.

The crucial job of artists is to find a way to release materials into the animated middle ground between subjects, and so to initiate the difficult but joyful process of human connection.

To fall in love with pain is to fall in love with art.

As cultural politics change, museums change with them.

How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or the distillation, of an observation that came before

Life is an art the one cannot erase

An artistic person taps into the destructive emotional energy of guilt and shame and the longing to love and be loveable and transforms these powerful emotions into a creative force.

Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment.

No one ever claimed that creating art was simple. But they failed to mention the mess.

God design of you is divine act.

When life, inspiration, and pen meet.

It is not sufficient for artistic expressions to serve as "signposts declaring what it is to be fully human." They should impart a vision of what it can be to become divine.

The music is all around us, all you have to do is listen.

Critics are only concerned with what affects them. And feeling empathy is a gift not many possess.

There are few better ways to get to know how a species thinks than to learn their art.

When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists.

I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere observation, that I have imprisoned the most utter violence in every inch of their surface.

I look up at the painting. It's not even that interesting. Definitely doesn't grab me and shake my brain around like the meadow scene did.

For Art alone is great:The bust survives the state, The crown the potentate.

Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!

She must disappear for a time from the human surface, And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of her world.

Words do not always need a destination.We can leave them behind us at the borders of feelings.Running around headless in the vague zone.And that is the privilege of artists: to live in confusion.

My artwork isn't evolving, it's deconstructing, and I don't know why.

My response to stress is just as complex as my artwork.

Two things have always ruptured up and through hegemony: art and bodies.

Maybe art itself was a kind of voodoo, possessing you, giving you supernatural power, letting you see in the dark.

A good artist does not just make imaginations beautiful to the mind, but also more pleasant to the eye with a superb visible touch of excellence.

Let us salute all the shadows of this world for the brilliant and enigmatical art they create day and night!

A piece of art only succeeds when it's creator...possesses the belief that brings it into being

I believe, that creating is a joyful activity as well as a meaningful suffer, and thus, it is an integral part of the human nature.

If you're to explain your works, then surely you have chosen wrong audience!

I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.

They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour.

Every second in the air in Paris is art.

Art--music, painting, sculpture, dance, drama--opens doors to our soul, exposing our lives to whom or what we allow to enter.

All art moves between the extremes.

Only the painter who knows his business can create the impression that a picture was done in one stroke.

I am bothered by poems I don't understand.

Communication is not using beautiful and complex words to impress, but its all about expressing our truest emotions using simple words!

The essence of art is that its one case applies to thousands, ' knew Schopenhauer.

Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up!

Are you an artist?""I'm a mess is what I am, " he says, holding on to the building for support. "A bloody mess. You 're the artist, mate." Then he's gone.

LABOUR is effort, while ART is effortless! What are you?

Art that most inspires are the ones that pay attention to aspects of the subconscious condition that we are too busy to notice.

God gave you the art to talk and you will just ignore it like these?

The human spirit’s unquenchable drive for originality and compulsion for creating art is the compelling force of our humanity.

We view art in order to escape our own skins, to get outside of the commotion inside our skulls.

Nothing's better for art than a little old-fashioned suffering.

The riskiness of Art, the reason why it affects us, is not the riskiness of its subject matter, it is the risk of creating a new way of seeing, a new way of thinking.