A Quotes
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“Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.”
“Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence in the world.”
“Art is purposiveness without purpose.”
“Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.”
Source: But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop, and Other Writings
“Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul.”
“Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.”
“Art is really a battle.”
“Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.”
“Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.”
“Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?"”
“Art is really predicated upon the experiences that you've had in your life. You only have to share what you've consumed.”
“Art is really whispering, not shouting.”
“Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.”
“Art is recuperation
from time. I lie back
convalescing upon the prospect
of a harvest already at hand.”
“Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole.”
“Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW, not the WHAT; not with literal content, but with the performance of the factual content. The performance - how it is done - that is the content of art.”
“Art is right reason in the doing of work.”
“Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.”
“Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination. Images are it's only wealth. It does not classify objects, it does not pronounce them real or imaginary, does not qualify them does not define them; it feels and presents them.”
“Art is running away without ever leaving home.”
“Art is sanctioned pornography”
Source: The Neoist Manifestos/The Art Strike Papers
“Art is science in the flesh.”
Source: Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings
“Art is science made clear.”
“Art is science made flesh.”
“Art is seduction, not rape.”
Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“Art is self-centered
Design is user-centered”
“Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.”
“Art is sexless; - good work is eternal, no matter whether it is man or woman who has accomplished it. ... Ah, but the world will never own woman's work to be great even if it be so, because men give the verdict, and man's praise is for himself and his own achievements always.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marie Corelli (Illustrated)
“Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!”
“Art is significant deformity.”
“Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.”
Source: Art
“Art is so often better at theology than theology is.”
“Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.”
“Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.”
“Art is so subjective--it means something different to every person. The important thing for it to do is to touch on the senses and emotions.”
“Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.”
“Art is socialism but life is capitalism.”
“Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.”
“Art is something about the spirit... if you want to make something that has a spirit, and speaks to the spirit of other people in the world, you have to touch it, you have to physically address it... if you don't, if you just farm it out, it becomes a product.”
“Art is something beautiful, creative, and full of aestheticism. It can be an expression of reality and also non-reality.”
“Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for him every other impression becomes an inner expression.”
“Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)
“Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.”
“Art is something someone made. It's a product of human endeavor. As such, it's not that different from having a conversation with someone. The painter is telling us something. Just, how do they - what's their syntax? What's their inflection?”
“Art is something that everyone should be able to have access to.”
“Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.”
“Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.”
“Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.”
“Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.”