Quotes About World

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.

Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.

Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.

You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, 'What is it?' In that moment art can be created.

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.

This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.

The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world.

The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.

The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world.

All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.

All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.