“For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life.”
Source: From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton
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“If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?”
Source: Journal of a Solitude
“True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.”
“We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth.”
Source: Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists
“Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.”
“The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
Source: The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh
“Business Art is the step that comes after Art.”
Source: Andy Warhol
“Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.”
Source: Works:
“Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.”
“What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.”
“Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.”
Source: Rodin on Art and Artists
“Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.”
Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel
“Art is what everyone knows it is.”
Source: Breviary of aesthetics: four lectures
Source: The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba
Source: The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba
“To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.”
Source: De Kooning: a centennial exhibition
Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell
“One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.”
Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell
“Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.”
Source: The Art Spirit
Source: The Art Spirit
“As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.”
Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918