Quotes About Art

Underground electronic music is art - fundamentally it's based on contemporary art, culture, dance, and real music. If you look at EDM, how many of those cultural standpoints are the same?

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

It doesn't matter the genre or type of art, if it's authentic there's an apparent beauty to it and as an artist, that's very inspiring.

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely.

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

History develops, art stands still.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.

Criticism is easy, art is difficult.

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.