“How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.” HumansArtSelfEvilAnswersExistenceArt IsClaimsBoundsBackgroundsSecularHuman Existence Author:Yann Martel
“The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it. In other words, although the beautiful exists for the gratification of an observer, it is independent of him. In this sense music, too, has no aim (object), and the mere fact that this particular art is so closely bound up with our feelings by no means justifies the assumption that its aesthetic principles depend on this union.” LooksMeanArtFactsFeelingsBeautifulEmotionPrinciplesObjectsParticularDependsArt IsAimIndependentRemainsUnionsMereBoundsAssumptionJustifyAestheticObserversGratification Author:Eduard Hanslick
“Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of its means in any way it likes, but is bound to its laws and to its laws alone. The minute it becomes art, it becomes much more sublime than a class distinction between proletariat and bourgeoisie.” MenWayMeanArtUseSpiritualLawClassMinutesArt IsFunctionAimChaosBoundsLikesDistinctionSublimeProletariatBourgeoisieClass Distinction Author:Kurt Schwitters
“Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.” KindArtFactsArt IsBoundsDescriptionExhaustedModernismConceptual Art Author:Alexander Stoddart
“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.” ArtPracticeArt IsBoundsRevelationsHorizonFar AwayBenignPersonal Revelation Author:Ken Baumann
“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.” MenArtArt IsFellowsBoundsContactFellow ManExtending Book:Adam Bede Source: Adam Bede
“Once you are afraid of death you are bound to be afraid of life. That`s why I am talking about this Hasidic approach. The whole approach consists of methods, ways and means of how to die - the art of dying is the art of living also. Dying as an ego is being born as a non `ego; dying as a part is being born as a whole; dying as man is a basic step towards being born as a God.” MenWayMeanArtWholeDiesBornTalkingStepsDyingEgoApproachArt IsMethodBoundsArt Of LivingAfraid Of DeathAfraid Of Life Author:Rajneesh