Top 1200 Modern Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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.

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

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

When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism.

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

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

We're caught in the pace of modern living - this emphasis on the "quick take," on the magazine that says it will take you eight minutes to read an article. It seems to me that here is a tendency that ought to be denied in part. Certain children do read in the past; they love the old language; they love the sound of words. I don't think it's good enough to say something is better because is it updated and modern.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

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

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.

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

You can't really have art without having a sense of community as art is for others to enjoy as well.

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.

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

There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

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

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

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

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?

Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

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

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.

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

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

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

My art is applied to another art which is cinema, that makes my life much easier.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.

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

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

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

Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form.

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