Art Is Quotes
Art Is Quote of the day
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.
Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole.
I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.
True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.
A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.
In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings.
Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light.
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.
Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.
Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.
Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts.
Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.
You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.
The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.
All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.
Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.
Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.
Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.
The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.
The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.
I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable
'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.
