“Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.” ArtArt IsIdealsContactMediumsTranscendental Author:Gerhard Richter
“Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste, brotherhood and all the subtleties that we all know.” KnowsWorldHumansArtPleasureConditionsArt IsMediumsBrotherhoodHuman ConditionLensesSubtletyFear Of LoveBewildermentDistaste Author:Alton Tobey
“Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.” ArtMoralCommunicationArt IsIdealsMediumsIndispensable Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else remain forever unuttered and unutterable; it feeds that deep, ineradicable instinct within us of which all art is only the reverberated echo, that craving to express, through the medium of the senses, the spiritual and eternal realities which underlie them.” ArtRealitySpiritualMusicForeverEternalArt IsInstinctSensesMediumsAnalysisEchoesCraving Author:Hugh Reginald Haweis
“Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.” ArtEmotionArt IsMediums Author:Nadia Boulanger
“Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of the artist.... In relation to the inclusiveness and literally endless intricacy of life, art is arbitrary, symbolic and abstracted. That is its value and the source of its own kind of order and coherence.” LifeKindArtArtistValuesOrderMaterialsSourceArt IsRelationEndlessMediumsOrganizeSelectionArbitrarySymbolicCoherenceIntricacyInclusiveness Author:Jane Jacobs
“I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.” ArtMessagesArt IsDiscoveryFundamentalsSeekingMediumsArtisticImpulse Author:John Paul Caponigro
“The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.” PersonsArtDifferentSimpleArt IsDirectMediumsDefinite Author:Grace Slick
“I think that there is a purity aesthetic, like "I just make art because I'm an artist and I can't help it. I don't care what the critics say." But different mediums have a different relationship with the public. If you're in a performing medium it's hard not to place some weight on whether or not people come to your shows, or whether or not they're enjoying them.” PeopleIfsThinkingArtI CanDifferentHardHelpingShowsCareArtistEnjoyArt IsWeightCriticsDon't CareMediumsI Don't CarePerformingPurityAestheticDifferent Relationships Author:Mirah
“Many of my students learn different techniques online and I have learnt a lot using this medium. Art is picking up in the Caribbean but it's unfortunate that we still have people looking down on it. Many persons who don't know better think that having a career in art is a waste of time. I guess the public just needs to be educated some more.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsPersonsArtStillsDifferentCareersStudentsWasteArt IsTechniqueMediumsEducatedOnlineWasting TimeUnfortunateCaribbeanLooking Down Author:St. Lucia
“Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.” HumansPersonsDoeArtMadeSoulMatterEyeArtistVoiceDoubtWallPhotographyArt IsPhotographerOilResistanceMediumsMade ItWhat MattersIgnoredBeholderEye Of The Beholder Author:Seth Godin