Quotes About Art

We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions.

What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.

I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

I don't have a philosophy. I have a camera.

It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.

Socrates should have written comics.

The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic.

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artist's most profound life experiences.

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy.

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words.

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so disciplined. The photographer works with both his eyes and his mind.

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.

I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong.

Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.