Top 1200 Literary Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

What does art mean to me? I never really think about the 'meaning' of art. Yet, obviously, that's what I do.

What I'm most fascinated by is the ability of art to induce changes, but remain grounded solidly in its art practice.

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

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

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

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?

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

One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.

Music and art well and truly saved my life really - the light switched on when I discovered art.

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

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

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

The best stuff is done by people who love it, whether that's high art or low art, whatever that is.

Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.

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

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

There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.

One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

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

If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.

I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's sake, and you know, kind of try to keep political debate out of our work. And to that I say, I'd like you to show me an example of, you know, this so-called apolitical art. I don't think there's any such thing.

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

The price we sell things for is not important. What is important is we sell art that has to be replaced. You become good in art by doing art. The more you sell, the more you must produce.

Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.

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

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

Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.

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

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

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

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.

To me, this is the most awesome kind of art. When the music is right, everybody is as much a part of the art.

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

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making us reassess our thoughts and feelings about how we relate to other people. There are always people who fear that and want to suppress that.

If Graffiti is art and art is a crime then how come piccaso never done time?

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.

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.

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.

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

Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.

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.

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

The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school.

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

I have a large number of enthusiastic admirers of my art. And they all sing a hymn in praise from the bottom of their hearts for my art.

People don't buy and sell art based on the personality of the artist. Or there wouldn't be much art bought and sold.

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

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

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.

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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.