quotes about Art Is
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Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
-- Ad ReinhardtSource : Ad Reinhardt, Marlborough Gallery (1970). “Ad Reinhardt: black paintings, 1951-1967”
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Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.
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Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.
-- Albert Camus -
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The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.
-- Alex GreySource : Alex Grey (2017). “The Mission of Art”, p.10, Shambhala Publications
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Art is only art if it is synonymous with living
-- Alexander Girard -
The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.
-- Alfred JarrySource : Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor”
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience...
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Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.
-- Alice NeelSource : Alice Neel, Amy Young, Robert Miller Gallery (New York, N.Y.) (2002). “Alice Neel: black and white”
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Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
-- Amiri Baraka -
I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
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Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
-- Anselm KieferSource : "A life in art: Anselm Kiefer" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2011.
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All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.
-- Aristotle -
Whatever art is, it is no longer something primarily to be looked at. Stared at, perhaps, but not primarily looked at
-- Arthur Danto -
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The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist.
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All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
-- August Wilson -
What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.
-- Auguste Rodin -
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In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.
-- Auguste RodinSource : "The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin". Book by Albert Edward Elsen, p. 131, July 1, 1985.
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Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.
-- Benedetto Croce -
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Art is what everyone knows it is.
-- Benedetto CroceSource : Benedetto Croce, Remo Bodei (2007). “Breviary of aesthetics: four lectures”, Univ of Toronto Pr
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The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.
-- Beth HenleySource : "Expressing 'the Misery and Confusion Truthfully'". Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, American Drama, Volume 14, No. 1 (p. 87), Winter 2005.
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Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.
-- Brian Eno -
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I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.
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The highest art is no art. The highest form is no form
-- Bruce Lee -
What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.
-- Bruce NaumanSource : Bruce Nauman, Janet Kraynak (2005). “Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words : Writings and Interviews”, p.180, MIT Press
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All art is someone trying to tell you something.
-- Caitlin Moran -
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Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.
-- Carrie Mae WeemsSource : "Artist Carrie Mae Weems on 30 Years of Genius [INTERVIEW]". Interview with Kristin Braswell, www.ebony.com. February 5, 2014.
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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
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There is no corner of life where art is not needed. There is no corner of art where life is not needed.
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Making art is different for everyone.
-- China ChowSource : "China Chow Talks Season 2 Of ‘Work Of Art’". Interview with Huffingtonpost, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2011.
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Art is so often better at theology than theology is.
-- Christian Wiman -
The work of art is a scream of freedom.
-- Christopher Lasch -
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Art is 'I'; science is 'we'.
-- Claude BernardSource : Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Volume IV, 1928.
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I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.
-- D.T. Suzuki -
I don't see what else you can spend your money on... If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet.
-- Damien Hirst -
In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.
-- Dan Graham -
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Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.
-- David BaylesSource : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.20, Image Continuum Press
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An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.
-- David FosterSource : "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again". Essay by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1997.
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All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?
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The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.
-- David McCullough -
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Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.
-- David Sedaris -
Ideally, brewers interpret history, and through science they create art.
-- Don Spencer -
Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.
-- Donald JuddSource : Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention,
-- Dorothea Lange -
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I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness - the work.
-- Eduardo Chillida -
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The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
-- Edward Hopper -
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
-- Egon SchieleSource : Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (2005). “Egon Schiele: love and death”, Cantz
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Art is much, but love is more ...
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
-- Emile Zola -
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real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.
-- Emily CarrSource : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.238, D & M Publishers
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If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.
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In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.
-- Eugenio Montale -
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The highest art is artlessness.
-- Francis Alexander Durivage -
Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.
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Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.
-- Gao Xingjian -
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Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.
-- Georges Braque -
The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures.
-- Georges Braque -
Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.
-- Georges Braque -
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Art is the highest form of hope.
-- Gerhard RichterSource : Gerhard Richter, Christine Mehring, Jeanne Anne Nugent, Jon L. Seydl (2010). “Gerhard Richter: Early Work, 1951-1972”, p.161, Getty Publications
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Art is nothing but humanized science.
-- Gino SeveriniSource : "Culture and the Crowd". Book by Deric Regin (p. 86), 1968.
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Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
-- Goldwin SmithSource : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
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My art is not an answer, it is a question.
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Art is a line around your thoughts.
-- Gustav KlimtSource : Gustav Klimt, Ankriktip, Abelia Serotina (2016). “Gustav Klimt Artworks”, p.17, Book and Magazine
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Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.
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Greatness in art is always a by-product.
-- Harold RosenbergSource : Harold Rosenberg (1983). “Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations”, p.231, University of Chicago Press
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Art is not an anaemic cult but a dynamic culture.
-- Harry HootonSource : Harry Hooton (1961). “It is Great to be Alive”
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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
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The highest condition of art is artlessness.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
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Art is an international language, understood by all.
-- Igor Babailov -