A Quotes
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“Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.”
“Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.”
“Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist.”
“Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.”
“Art is about feelings and emotion. It's about letting them escape, so they can be shared. It's about capturing a truth about yourself. Like you're ripping a hole in your chest and exposing your soul.”
Source: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.”
“art is about ideas. And ideas are wilder than memories. They're like weeds, always finding their way up.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Art is about paying attention.”
“Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.”
“Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.”
“Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.”
“Art is about the context in which it is made as much as the object itself; objects take on different meanings in different contexts. If the artist is unaware of the context, it's very unlikely the work will be very good.”
“Art is about the dynamics of the human experience.”
“Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.”
“Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious - about insight beyond reason. If his insight were reasonable, anyone could do it, but anyone cannot. Only few can, and they are called.”
Source: Theatre
“Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.”
“Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.”
“Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.”
“Art is actually based on the notion that if you would really celebrate an idea or a principle, you must think, you must plan, you must put yourself completely in the state of devotion, and not simply give the first thing that comes to your head”
“Art is aesthetic communication of the soul—in fact, it’s the best of that communication—and taken in its entirety has formed a body of work to stand alongside Science and Religion as one of the three great constructs of culture to aid the individual in his or her struggle to survive in Nature.”
“Art is affirmation.”
Source: The Ancient Child
“Art is alive because it is mortal.”
“Art is all about becoming a name, a brand; it isn't based on talent or creativity.”
“Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.”
“Art is all about the experience. I could say I dont really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, Blimey, look at that.”
“Art is all in the details.”
“Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.”
“Art is always an energy exchange.”
Source: The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller
“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.”
“Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument, and dote upon a text that provides the nutritious pemmican on which scholars love to chew.”
Source: The Cunning Man
“Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.”
“Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.”
“Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.”
“Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.”
“Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who's strong enough to shed new light on it.”
“Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should keep an anxious eye on this graph, for it is more significant than a decline in exports or a fall in the value of a nation's currency.”
Source: To Hell with Culture: And Other Essays on Art and Society
“Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.”
“Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.”
“Art is always, even at its most repulsive, an impassioned cry of love.”
“Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.”
“Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.”
Source: Irving Stone, three complete novels
“Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.”
“Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.”
“Art is an adventure that never seems to end.”
“Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of any form of art, art which affirms the value and the holiness of life, the artist must die. To serve a work of art, great or small, is to die, to die to self.”
“Art is an approach for evolving ; Self-realisation and thereafter self-reform. A healing. Each Artwork is a testament that artist and part of his story, his experiences and ordeals sustained him as a humane.
Every artpiece is a saga of seeking and of subsistence.”
“Art is an articulator of the soul's uncensored purpose and deepest will.”
“Art is an artifice that you try to make seem natural.”
“Art is an artificial organization of experience.”