“Art. Its definitions are legion, its meanings multitudinous, its importance often debated. But amid the many contradictory definitions of art, one has always stood the test of time, from the Upanishads in the East, to Michelangelo in the West: art is the perception and depiction of the sublime, the transcendent, the beautiful, the spiritual.” ArtBeautifulSpiritualPerceptionArt IsTestsImportanceWestDefinitionsEastSublimeContradictoryTranscendentLegionDepictionTest Of Time Author:Ken Wilber
“Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.” ArtFeelingsPerceptionArt IsTasksDefinitionsInverse Author:Raphael Soyer
“My definition of art is whatever an artist calls art. Us speaking could be an artwork, us sitting in the near-dark in your kitchen beside the dirty dishes and smoking, me thinking of what to say next.” ThinkingArtArtistNextDarkArt IsSittingDefinitionsDirtyKitchenSmokingDishesArtworkDirty Dishes Author:Matthew Brannon
“I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all rational understanding; why are they so eager to concede without a struggle the defeat of knowledge; and where does their irrepressible need to belittle rational understanding come from, this rage to affirm the irreducibility of the work of art, or, to use a more suitable word, its transcendence.” NeedsDoeArtUseAsksUnderstandingStruggleArt IsCriticsDefeatDefinitionsPhilosopherSatisfactionRageRationalWorks Of ArtTranscendenceSuitableBelittleIneffableIrrepressibleUnderstanding Why Author:Pierre Bourdieu