Top 1200 Art Therapy Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called popular is fugitive in character, with less of the impersonal and intellectual characteristics of the schools. It is the work of talent nourished by personal experience and that of the community - rather than being taken from the experiences of painters in other times and other cultures.

Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.

I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

The art of healing, the art of ecstasy, the art of God-consciousness has millions of names in mystic terms. It has to do with rhythm and reality. When the body is in rhythm, there is ease. When the body, or any part of the body goes out of rhythm, there is dis-ease.

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together.

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.

Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

Polling is an art as well as a science, and the art of crafting good questions is still vital.

Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

I've had to sell a lot of art, which I've hated to do because I really love the art I have.

When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about.

Sometimes we look at a work of art and we immediately think that it is German art, but with some we don't, it's not so obvious.

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.

When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly. Twitter, videos posted online - how do you utilize that? How do you identify yourself as an individual when you're sitting at this massive dinner table of the world with everyone on, from Kansas to Dubai?

Concrete, Steel & Paint portrays the core values of restorative justice-respect, responsibility and relationships-expressed through art. it is art that involves victims, offenders and communities in a dialogue that is sometimes difficult and painful, sometimes reconciling, but always engaging. As one prisoner says in the film, 'We have come together collectively through art.' It will be a great discussion tool for college classes, community groups and others interested in issues of justice, community-building, conflict resolution and socially-engaged art.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it was painted, placed or built. Most of the art of the past that could be moved was taken by conquerors. Almost all recent art is conquered as soon as it's made, since it's first shown for sale and once sold is exhibited as foreign in the alien museums. The public has no idea of art other than that it is something portable that can be bought. There is no constructive effort; there is no cooperative effort. This situation is primitive in relation to a few earlier and better times.

Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.

If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

Some teams hold a little more than others. It's an art, but it's not an art I appreciate.

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.

A master of an art is someone who's been mastered by the art. They've become so one with what they teach that you can't tell the teacher from the student.

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

Internet can provide the power to believe in art in new formulas, because it is the newest medium for art.

Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.

Drag is very much an art form, and all art goes through ebbs and flows and trends.