All Quotes

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
‐‐ Isadora Duncan

Art is not only about angst.
‐‐ John Corigliano

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.
‐‐ JR

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
‐‐ Pablo Picasso

Art is not the kind of thing where you get what you put into it all the time. So I learned to not expect anything other than the sort of joy of having a poem in front of me.
‐‐ Terrance Hayes

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
‐‐ Edgar Degas

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
‐‐ Franz Marc

Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.
‐‐ Keith Haring

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.
‐‐ Adam Davidson

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
‐‐ Elizabeth Bowen

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
‐‐ Henry Miller

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
‐‐ Harry S Truman

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.
‐‐ Herbert Read

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno

Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.
‐‐ Fred Tomaselli

Art is significant deformity.
‐‐ Roger Fry

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
‐‐ Eric Gill

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.
‐‐ Jennifer Aniston

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.
‐‐ Gunter Grass

Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

Art is something that grows and breathes and lives, and it shouldn't be predicated on the success of box office - but it is. But within that, you have to give people a chance to find their voice, to play, to continue to create.
‐‐ Ava DuVernay

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.
‐‐ Nile Rodgers

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.
‐‐ Christian Bale

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.
‐‐ Billy Al Bengston

Art is spiritual.
‐‐ John Cusack

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
‐‐ Kary Mullis

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.
‐‐ Lily-Rose Depp

Art is such an important part of our culture.
‐‐ Rosanna Arquette

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
‐‐ Eduardo Chillida

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
‐‐ Edward Bond

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
‐‐ Andre Gide

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
‐‐ Agnes Martin

Art is the daughter of freedom.
‐‐ Friedrich Schiller

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
‐‐ Amy Lowell

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
‐‐ Pablo Picasso

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
‐‐ Giorgio de Chirico

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
‐‐ Iris Murdoch

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
‐‐ Milan Kundera

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
‐‐ Alfred North Whitehead

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
‐‐ Pablo Picasso

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.
‐‐ Antony Gormley

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
‐‐ Claude Debussy

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
‐‐ Claude Debussy

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
‐‐ John Donne

Art is the objectification of feeling.
‐‐ Herman Melville

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
‐‐ Susanne Langer

Art is the only thing that can save me from my opinions about the world. I tend to get very worked up about what I see going on, and I feel, you know, impotent to make the kind of changes and the kind of difference that I would like to make.
‐‐ David Dobkin

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp