Quotes About Revelation

The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized, forgotten, invisible and impossible to tell.

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.

The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light.

But what is art other than revealing human nature?

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

What's so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven't even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.

A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else.

Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.

We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority.

Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning.

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

Art is most effective when concealed.

Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou.

I expect art to make me scream, art to reveal soul.