Top 1200 Sacred Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.

I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are striving for alternatives in an increasingly dehumanized world. I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

It is often just as sacred to laugh as it is to pray.

I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of algorithms, so a lot of people are going to want to make art that's like an algorithm. But my language is painting, and painting is the opposite of that. There's something primal about it. It's innate, the need to make marks. That's why, when you're a child, you scribble.

Irreverence is our only sacred cow.

Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

Art curates compassion. Art to me breaks down walls and allows us to step into somebody else's shoes.

The task of life is to face sacred moments.

I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.

Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.

The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

Scared is what happens when the sacred gets scrambled.

Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.

I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.

I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible things.

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

Happiness is all about milking the "sacred now".

Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

There is no language of the holy. The sacred lies in the ordinary.

The Bible is God's sacred Word of truth.

I'm a football guy, but to me, nothing is sacred.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.

Fashion is one of the most beautiful forms of art we have. It's a form of art that every person gets to possess and create for themselves.

Mantras are passwords that transform the mundane into the sacred.

I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.

The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.

I've been covering the art industry for nine years, and I still don't feel like I have a clear grasp on what an art consultant does. What's the difference between a dealer and an art consultant? Who are they? What's their day to day like? So I asked a few private dealers, consultants and curators to talk about what they do. Everyone told me a different story.

Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.

In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.

I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form.

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

In the past, art was admired and revered from afar. Today, there is more of an interactive relationship between the art and the person who admires it.

As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments.

I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

Home is the sacred refuge of our life.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.

The Druids held the trees as very sacred.

Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.

Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not the same.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

Fashion, art, and architecture are all so tightly connected; I think the way to approach referencing these art works is by capturing the essence.

Learning to trust our intuition is an art form, and like all other art forms, it takes practice to perfect.

I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature.

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

Sacred cows make great hamburgers.

Politics itself is not sacred any more.

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

If the picture is not an artistic picture, it's show, like television. Television series are very funny, but it's a collective production. An industrial art. A car is not made by a person, it's made by a group of creators, only to go to the market to buy your cigarettes. That is a car - they are not a big art, they are a little art.

The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.