“The entire 'my art is better than your art' thing really gets under my skin. The fact of the matter is: Your art IS better than my art... at being what it is. So what? It just so happens that my art is better than your art, at being what it is.” ArtMatterFactsHappensArt IsSkins Author:Derek R. Audette
“Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural pursuit, something that happens in art galleries. Unless art is linked to experience and the fear and joy of that, it becomes mere icing on the cake.” BelieveArtHappensJoyViewsArt IsExperienceFunctionMerePursuitCakeVehicleLinkedGalleryUtopianIcingArt GalleriesIcing On The Cake Author:Antony Gormley
“Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.” ArtHappensAsksArt Is Author:Walter Darby Bannard
“It is not quite accurate to say that the objective of art is to represent what happens to us as a consequence of encountering the world. A fuller description of the task would be to say our aim is to discover what happens to us as we consider things.” WorldArtHappensWould BeArt IsDiscoveryConsequenceTasksAimObjectivesDescriptionAccurate Author:Peter London
“perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.” ArtPlayHappensEnemyDivineArt IsPerfectionDrivenWorking ItPerfectionism Book:Parachutes & kisses Source: Parachutes & kisses
“Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.” ArtHappensSpacePerfectExistenceElementsUniqueArt IsWorks Of ArtLackingTime And SpaceReproduction Book:Illuminations Source: Illuminations
“Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.” HumansArtMightHappensArt IsConnectionsGenerousContribution Author:Seth Godin
“Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, rather because it wishes to be art. However much the writer might long to be straightforward, these virtues are no longer available to him. He discovers that in being simple, honest, straightforward, nothing much happens.” LongArtMightHappensWishDifficultSimpleVirtueHonestArt IsAvailableStraightforward Author:Donald Barthelme
“If I was asked to get rid of the Zen aesthetic and just keep one quality necessary to create art, I would say it's trust. When you learn to trust yourself implicitly, you no longer need to prove something through your art. You simply allow it to come out, to be as it is. This is when creating art becomes effortless. It happens just as you grow your hair. It grows.” IfsNeedsArtHappensGrowsQualityHairProveCreatingArt IsAestheticTrust YourselfEffortlessCreating Art Author:John Daido Loori
“I wouldn't say the purpose of making art is to enjoy it necessarily. For me, it happens to be the thing I enjoy the most. I don't even know what the purpose of art is really, I just know that is something that makes me feel satisfied in a way that other things don't. That's all I know, that's why I like to write songs and films or draw. I just like to make things and somehow I find it gives me a feeling of satisfaction that I can't find in other areas of my life.” KnowsWayGivingFeelsWritingArtI CanFeelingsHappensFilmPurposeSongEnjoyDrawsArt IsAreasGive MeSatisfactionSatisfiedPurpose Of Art Author:Sean Lennon
“The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art is to be the site where all accidents happen. But that's its only art.” ArtHappensTelevisionArt IsAccidentsCinemaMuseumsSiteAccidents Happen Author:Paul Virilio
“It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.” WayWritingMeanArtEndsMatterHappensEnergyResultsProducePaintingArt IsThings HappenRememberedBombsAtomsDefiniteSculptureMake Things HappenAtom Bomb Author:William S. Burroughs
“I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the world which makes that lie true...what that world must be like, and what would have to happen for us to get from this world to that one.” WorldTryingArtHappensLyingInterestingImagineThis WorldArt Is Author:Brian Eno
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.” ArtIdeasHappensGirlSexCreativeModernArt IsPainterModern ArtLooking For Love Author:John Ciardi