Art Is Quotations | Page 2

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.

Making art is an act of faith.

If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.

Art is socialism but life is capitalism.

Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.

The only thing that is not art is inattention

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.

The noblest art is that of making others happy

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.

Chatter about art is almost always useless.

My trade and art is to live.

Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.

The end of art is peace.

All art is exploitation.

Art is the act of navigating without a map.

What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else

At the heart of art is learning to see

Art is a personal act of courage.

Art is what we do when we're truly alive.

Formal art is essentially rational.

All art is about appealing to emotion.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?

Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted

Art is when things appear rounded.

The basis of art is change in the universe.

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

Art is made by the alone for the alone.

Art is coming face to face with yourself.

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

Art is manipulation without intervention.

Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.

Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.

Art is good but it isn't the best.

real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.

Art is an escape from reality.

Art is whatever you can get away with.

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

Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

My art became very public.

A life lived for art, is never a life wasted.

Art is nothing without form.

Art is not only about angst.

Art is communication.

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

Art is an elastic sort of love.

Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

Any form of art is a form of power.

Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

When Art becomes a Science it is no longer an Art.

The public has a right to art … Art is for everybody,

Art is for everybody.

All good art is an indiscretion.

Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched.

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Art is the accomplice of love.

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

All art is knowing when to stop.

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

The art of making art, is putting it together....

Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.

A spiritual search in art is looking for meaning outside of yourself.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

Art is an emotional experience

Art is seduction, not rape.

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

Organized perception is what art is all about.

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

Art is a sense of magic.

Art is the perfection of nature, ... nature is the art of God.

Art is an experience, not an object.

Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.

True art is reverent imitation of God.

Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.

What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things...

Art is the Godhead as revealed in the works of man.

All good art is about something deeper than it admits.

Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.

Art is an investigation.

Art is what is irresistible.

Art is not about something, Art is something

Thus all Art is propaganda and ever must be....

Art is my life and my life is art.

Art is much, but love is more ...

That art is best which suggests most.

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

The highest art is no art. The highest form is no form

Art is nothing; it's a way.

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.