Art Quotes
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And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction of space and time and matter and energy. That that mapping is insufficient. That the world is instead some kind of a linguistic construct. It is more in the nature of a sentence, or a novel, or a work of art than it is in the nature of these machine models of interlocking law that we inherit out of a thousand years of rational reductionism.
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Condemning art as manipulative is a non sequitur, of course. All art is manipulative.
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Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
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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.
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Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
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Art is not meant to change the world.
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Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal.
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A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
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Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking for an alternative world to escape into. Dance offered him a display in which he could find, after much searching, certain human secrets.
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Art has to offer something other than stylized despair.
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If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.
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It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.
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The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.
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I remember saying to myself those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that they will truly be heard. I mean, that's what art is. Art is about being provocative. Art is also about beauty. And if you leave the latter out, the former doesn't matter.
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Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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I like art with a visible string to the world.
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...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
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I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're postponing at best, your own development. The atmosphere of the workshop should be that of trying out one's own work and accepting the signals from others but not accepting the dictation of others because that is a violation of the spirit of art. Art can't be done by somebody else, it has got to be done by the artist.
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There's that saying, "I don't know art, but I know what I like." The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you.
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I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.
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In this sense, we should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.
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Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
