A Quotes
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“Art is a movement of a human soul, shaping itself into form of the visible world.”
“Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable.”
Source: AnOther E.E. Cummings
“Art is a mythical beast. It takes out all your primal instincts to awaken your dormant myth.”
Source: Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.
“Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
“Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without the arts.”
“Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.”
“Art is a never-ending journey towards beauty and perfection.”
“Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.”
“Art is a normal and necessary behavior of human beings and like other common and universal occupations such as talking, working, exercising, playing, socializing, learning, loving, and caring, should be recognized, encouraged and developed in everyone. Via art, experience is heightened, elevated, made more memorable and significant”
“Art is a part of the artist’s soul willed into independent existence. That’s why we can take things as different as a drawing, or a dance, or a poem, or a melody and call them all art.”
Source: The Recluse of Santa Fe
“Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.”
“Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.”
“Art is a passion or it is nothing.”
“Art is a path on which we honour our world.”
“Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.”
“Art is a perfectly complete cause.”
“Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.”
Source: My Name Is Asher Lev
“Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“Art is a personal act of courage.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“Art is a place for children to learn to trust their ideas, themselves, and to explore what is possible.”
“Art is a place where tragedy meets beauty. An artist is someone who creates the most beautiful things of his life when his soul starts bleeding.”
“Art is a platform where self-expression should not be limited. I'm here to inspire. There is no age limit to that.”
“Art is a positive "FORCE" that bring beings together for the common good. Only the people who had lost a piece of themselves can create the unimaginary.”
“Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself”
“Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.”
“Art is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical notes must be charged, must gather more than one and the surface meaning, must reveal audible and "inaudible" connections to other notes, patterns, and meaning, either by way of affinity or contrast.”
“Art is a process, not a product.”
“Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature.”
“Art is a profession, not a shrine.”
Source: A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society
“Art is a protest against death.”
“Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.”
Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir
“Art is a rebellion against fate.”
Source: Oddball in 3G
“Art is a rebellion against fate." - Andre Malraux”
Source: Oddball in 3G
“Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.”
“Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.”
“Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.”
“Art is a reflection of poetry and beauty of the heart and mind without the use of any words.”
“Art is a reflection on life. Life isn’t something we can cut and fix. It’s always in a state of flux.”
“Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light.”
Source: Towards a Poor Theatre
“Art is a sacred lie.”
Source: Stray Reflection
“Art is a secret lie.”
Source: Stray Reflections: A Note-book of Allama Iqbal
“Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“Art is a self-replicating force.”
“Art is a sense of magic.”
“Art is a service, not a product. Created beauty is a relationship, and a relationship with the Holy at that. Reducing such work to 'content' is like praying in swear words. End of Sermon. Back to business.”
“Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.”
“Art is a shadow of Divine perfection.”
“Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning.”
“Art is a simulator.”
Source: What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory