Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
A work of art... is not a living thing... that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect. No sports writer would say, "Well the Yankees had a great… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is, a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on… — Ruth Negga Copy Share Image
I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence . Art is not a brassiere.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are,… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
