A Quotes
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“Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.”
“Art is the cry for help of those who experience in themselves the fate of humanity. Who wrestle with it instead of accommodating themselves to it. Who do not bluntly serve the engine of 'dark powers,' but who plunge into the running machinery to grasp its construction. Who do not avert their eyes to protect themselves from emotion, but rather open them wide to tackle what has to be tackled. But who frequently shut their eyes to perceive what the senses do not convey, to behold within what only seemingly takes place outside. And within, inside them, is the agitation of the world; what breaks through to the outside is only its echo: the work of art.”
“Art is the daughter of freedom.”
Source: Friedrich Schiller Poet of Freedom Volume I
“Art is the daughter of pleasure.”
“Art is the deepest form of creative expression that resides within the soul.”
Source: The Art of an Enlightened Woman: A Manifesto
“Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.”
“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”
Source: Tendencies in Modern American Poetry
“Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative spirit in us toward a higher world; a world in which all ideas, thoughts, and forms are pure and beautiful and completely clear, the world Plato held to be perfect and eternal. All works that have in them an element of joy are records of this adventure.”
“Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social, self-sufficient, and total.”
“Art is the doorway—we just build the room around it.”
“Art is the earliest form of encryption.”
“Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.”
“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
“Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.”
Source: Three Essays on Religion
“Art is the escape from personality.”
“Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.”
“Art is the experience of what you’ve felt inside.”
Source: Close Up
“Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.”
Source: Renaissance fancies & studies
“Art is the expression of an enormous preference.”
“Art is the expression of heart”
“Art is the expression of human creativity and imagination, which produces works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty. It’s emotional.
Commerce is the activity of buying and selling, particularly on a grand scale. It’s black and white: either a purchase is made or it isn’t. It’s practical.”
Source: The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential
“Art is the expression of man's pleasure in labour.”
“Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.”
Source: Lear
“Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.”
“Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.”
“Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.”
Source: History and Romance: Works by Howard Pyle from the Brokaw Family Collection : the Exhibition, April 4 Through May 17, 1998, Brandywine River Museum, Brandywine Conservancy, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
“Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life.”
“Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.”
“Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.”
“Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.”
Source: Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature
“Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.”
“Art is the flower... life the green leaf.”
Source: Charles Rennie Mackintosh: the architectural papers
“Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.”
“Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.”
“Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.”
“Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“Art is the god you have not seen.”
Source: The Journals of Mary Butts
“Art is the Godhead as revealed in the works of man.”
“Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962
“Art is the great stimulus to life.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!”
“Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order.”
“Art is the highest expression of the human spirit.”
Source: The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art
“Art is the highest form of hope.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: Early Work, 1951-1972
“Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.”
Source: The Birth of Tragedy
“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.”
“Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief.”
Source: Tales from the Perilous Realm
“Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.”
“Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.”
“Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity