A Quotes
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“Art is not the spiritual side of business.”
Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt
“Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.”
Source: Joseph Beuys
“Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.”
“Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.”
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
“Art is not to throw light but to be light.”
Source: Sleepers awake
“Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.”
“Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.”
“Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.”
Source: Concerning the spiritual in art
“Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.”
Source: Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy
“Art is nothing but humanized science.”
“Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.”
“Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.”
“Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.”
“Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made.”
Source: Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art
“Art is nothing without form.”
“Art is nothing; it's a way.”
“Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.”
“Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.”
Source: Jeff Koons: Pictures, 1980-2002
“Art is of absolutely no use to the masses”
“Art is often born from inner struggle. Artists are plagued by impulses they must express. Contentment does not seek action but struggle always seeks release, and for the creative it can take the form of art.”
“Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.”
“Art is often mistaken for expression. However, in the hands of those who truly see, it becomes investigation, a form of thought.”
“Art is often seen as voluntary, an item on a list of choices you’re making, a task that can be prioritized or dispensed with, depending on available resources at the time. An item to be balanced against the exigencies of family. But. If you are an artist and you always, always put your children’s needs first, eventually your own need will make itself heard and you will wonder, What would I have made in those lost years? You will wonder, Am I too late? And you might be. Too late. You might have needed those years, when your kids were small. Just the way other works—lawyers, professors—also need those years if they are to have a career. And the way still other workers need those years if they are to make a living.”
Source: Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
“Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?”
“Art is one of man's few serious activities.”
“Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.”
“Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.”
“Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or hurt anyone.”
“Art is one of the few products that is almost a totally emotional buy. It is a mystery what contributes to a person's personal taste. However, being educated about the artist and his/her career may influence your decision regarding a purchase.”
“Art is one of the few ways we have of dealing with things that frighten or anger us.”
“Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.”
Source: Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley
“Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions opened thoroughly.”
Source: The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba
“Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.”
“Art is only a way of expressing pain.”
Source: Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon
“Art is only abstract when you look the other way.”
Source: The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales
“Art is only art if it is synonymous with living”
“Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything.”
“Art is only important to the extent that it aids in the liberation of our people.”
Source: Traditions and Transformations: Contemporary Afro-American Sculpture : The Bronx Museum of the Arts, February 21-May 27, 1989
“Art is only the search, it is not the final form. It's unlimited, it's forever.”
“Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.”
“Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.”
“Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.”
“Art is our defense against hysteria and death.”
Source: On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose
“Art is our endless desire to turn the mortal things into the immortal things!”
“Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance.”
“Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.”
Source: Talk: conversations with William Golding
“Art is pattern informed by sensibility.”
“Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.”
Source: Prisms
“Art is personal, criticism shouldn't be.”
“Art is personal, originating from dreams, ideas, neuroses; art is shared, harkening back to the humans around the fire; art imbues pleasure and power by enabling people to know reality...Art is a necessity because it is a way of knowing...Is the need for truth physiological? Art exists out of time...images may be different bu there is always a repetition- a thread.”