“I think it's important to remember that an artist could be at the center of healing our problems because, every day, that's what we do. Every day, our job is to make something that wasn't there before. We're kind of built to go into situations that need a kind of fresh thought to solve them so I'm happy about that and I would encourage anyone with any problem in the world that needs to be solved to consider having any person in the creative arts be at the core of its solution. I think that's one of our unused or untapped values.” ThinkingWorldKindArtImportantProblemRememberArtistValuesHealingSituationCreativeSolutionsArt IsCreative Art Author:David Lang
“Even as a teenager we got interested in the Beats, Dada, and Surrealism, and so on. What drew us to those was that their lives were their art. It wasn't something they did separately. Reading biographies of artists of that kind was what was fascinating to me, more than the stuff they made. We became convinced that life and art is really the same thing.” KindArtArtistReadingArt IsTeenagerSurrealism Author:Genesis P-Orridge
“I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.” WorldKindMeanArtMomentsArt IsFlowMusicalVisualsTransformingCommentaryObjectifying Author:Barbara Kruger
“I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.” FeelsKindArtI CanMatterShowsWeekArt IsNo Matter WhatMoodFeel BetterGallery Author:Jerry Saltz
“I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.” KindArtBeautifulArt IsIncrediblesPollock Author:Taylor Swift
“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.” PeopleMenKindArtFoodArt IsMajorityVery GoodArchitectureWorks Of ArtDeep Thought Book:What Is Art? Source: What Is Art?
“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.” IfsKindArtWholeStoriesLastsArtistKindnessSurvivalArt IsConfessionAnguishVomiting Author:James A. Baldwin
“Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.” KindArtSaidEarthArtistArt IsVarietySilverMiningSparklingUranium Mining Author:Jane Urquhart
“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense— he is "collective man"— one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.” MenHumansKindMayPersonsArtEndsFormPurposeArtistRealizingHuman BeingsMankindHigherShapesArt IsAimInstrumentsMoodUnconsciousCollectivesCarrieFree WillPsychicsInnateMemories Dreams ReflectionsCollective Unconscious Author:Carl Jung
“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.” HumansKindArtSometimesArtistDifficultHuman BeingsSacrificeOfficeOrdinaryArt IsInstrumentsInnateWorth LivingLife Worth Living Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul