Quotes About Art

Ive zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose

The heart of the Waldorf method is that education is an art-it must speak to the child's experience. To educate the whole child, his heart and his will must be reached, as well as the mind.

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .

The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

The feeling we experience while we look at a picture is not to be distinguished from the picture or from ourselves. the feeling, picture, and ourselves are united in one mystery.

Art that arises out of the inner landscape, and is connected to our lived experience, illuminates the darkness and heals the soul.

Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

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

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you're painting.

[Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.