“Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.” IfsArtLyingBehindsDivineArt IsInner Beauty Book:The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba Source: The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba
“Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.” ArtLeftBehindsRecordsCivilizationArt IsResponseLeft Behind Author:John French Sloan
“It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.” ArtAgeGrowthBehindsProgressFineArt IsSympathyDisabledComprehensionFine ArtsPhysically Disabled Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
“In some respects I will never die. Because art is immortal. What we leave behind and what we create - the energy that we put out into the world is eternal.” WorldArtDiesEnergyBehindsEternalArt IsImmortal Author:Madonna Ciccone
“All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.” ArtFormLiteraturePrayerBehindsArt IsActiveTheologyLuminousGreat Literature Author:Melissa Pritchard
“The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what I put out into the world, the footsteps I leave behind. It's a cliché for a reason - we all kind of work our own paths through the woods. There are not a lot of paths through the woods for someone who sings, plays the cello, and wants to tour on a human scale and create change in the world. I'm on my own path. It's pretty awesome.” WorldWantHumansKindArtReasonPlayChoicesMy OwnBehindsPathArt IsWoodsScalesWho I AmAll KindsFootsteps Author:Ben Sollee
“The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what I put out into the world, the footsteps I leave behind.” WorldArtReasonChoicesBehindsArt IsWho I AmFootsteps Author:Ben Sollee
“Most contemporary artists are behind the bubble in time. They're making videos that are so incredibly boring compared to a good movie. Or they're making work where I say, "You realize minimal art is 50 or 60 years old?" That's what I tell people to shock them. They just blanch.” PeopleYearsArtArtistRealizingBehindsArt IsBoringVideoContemporaryShockBubblesGood Movie Author:Alex Katz
“It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.” HumansArtSoulTodayEnergyBehindsFashionDependsBehaviorArt IsConcernedAppreciationMetalsHuman Behavior Author:Josef Albers
“Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art — even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?” IfsWayHumansArtDesireLostHuman BeingsGriefBehindsExistenceElementsArt IsAngryLove LifeDesire Love Author:Adrienne Rich