A Quotes
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“Art is the imperishable and dynamic expression of these aims. It is, and always has been, the visible evidence of the activity of free minds.”
“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”
“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.”
“Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all that is made, done, or known.”
“Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.”
“Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'”
“Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste, brotherhood and all the subtleties that we all know.”
“Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal.”
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
“Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.”
Source: Funny Business: The Craft of Comedy Writing
“Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.”
“Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.”
“Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.”
Source: On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose
“Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.”
“Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.”
Source: The Golden Notebook
“Art is the more spiritual side of education that really does saves lives and makes amazing individuals.”
“Art is the most beautiful deception of all!”
“Art is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.”
“Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.”
“Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.”
Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953
“Art is the most frenzied orgy man is capable of.”
“art is the most general condition of the Past in the present. ... Perhaps no work of art is art. It can only become art, when it is part of the past. In this normative sense, a 'contemporary' work of art would be a contradiction - except so far as we can, in the present, assimilate the present to the past.”
“Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story.”
“Art is the most important way of recording history.”
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.”
“Art is the most valued thing in the world...it is the expression of the highest form of human energy,the creative power nearest to the divine.The power is within - the question is how to reach it.”
“Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.”
Source: Adam Bede
“Art is the newly sprung river that keeps flowing at its own pace, based on its own unconditional knacks, passion, and its nature. Nature itself is art, and as such, art can be found in everything that belongs to nature. And in the world we live, there is nothing that doesn't belong to nature, for everything is nature, hence, everything is art. Even science is art, when it flows pure and free - literature is art, when it flows pure and free - mathematics is art, when it flows pure and free. Any act of the mind that flows pure and free, is art, for freedom is the soul of art.”
Source: Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
“Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.”
“Art is the objectification of feeling.”
“Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man. It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal. For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves. And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute's profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.”
Source: The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.”
“Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.”
“Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness.”
“Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.”
“Art is the only power capable of destroying the internet.”
“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)
“Art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.”
“Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.”
“Art is the only way to express our feelings beautifully”
“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”
“Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.”
“Art is the overflow of emotion into action.”
“Art is the path of the creator to his work.”
Source: The Poet
“Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.”
“Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?”
“Art is the place where the points in time that reason holds apart are reunited.”
Source: A History of Art History