Quotes About Art

The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.

I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It's a parallel, not a substitutive process.

Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.

Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.

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.

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.

I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that

Equestrian art is the perfect understanding and harmony between horse and rider.

Art = a mad search for individualism.

It's not too difficult to get the skeletons out of the closet with people, but to get the gold out is a different matter. That is therapy. Psychology is the Art of finding the gold of the spirit.

In art the search for a content which is collectively understandable is false; the content will always be individual.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.

We make art out of our loss.

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

These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.

The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely.