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 analogyartchange Change image and share on social
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 applicationartbeauty Change image and share on social
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 artexpectfront Change image and share on social
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. Edgar Degas artmake Change image and share on social
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 artclosedream Change image and share on social
Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people. Keith Haring artpeoplereach Change image and share on social
Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money. Adam Davidson artmakemoney Change image and share on social
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. Elizabeth Bowen arthurtmatter Change image and share on social
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 abundantartartist share on social
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. Harry S Truman artcriticismlife Change image and share on social