Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery. — William Golding Copy Share Image
what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I was getting paid for my art, because I was always an under-achiever. — Carson Ellis Copy Share Image
All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals. — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly? — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and… — Thomas Hoving Copy Share Image
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding… — Meyer Schapiro Copy Share Image
Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious - about insight beyond reason. If his insight were… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Art is often born from inner struggle. Artists are plagued by impulses they must express. Contentment does not seek action but struggle… — Eric Gibbons Copy Share Image
Public art is ephemeral by nature. Google 's new project not only catalogs an artist's work but archives it and allows people… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
Ivy [Wilkes] does exhibit a certain impatience at the beginning of the book [The Dissemblers]. She doesn't want to wait through years… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the… — Andy Couturier Copy Share Image
I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
The really creative person is not interested in dominating anybody. He is so utterly rejoicing in life - he wants to create,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
True poetry is born of scrutiny, Scrutiny, the son of meditation, Meditation, the son of lore, Lore, the son of inquiry, Inquiry,… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I felt saddened and confused to discover my favorite mural gone, but also hopeful that another one may be in the works.… — Emily Raboteau Copy Share Image
I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. Why is this… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
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