That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective seems to be regarded as an arrogant attitude. But the… — Tyrone Guthrie Copy Share Image
Art is personal, originating from dreams, ideas, neuroses; art is shared, harkening back to the humans around the fire; art imbues pleasure… — Zelda Fichandler Copy Share Image
If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever… — William Westney Copy Share Image
When I was at art school, a lot of art education is about art being a means of self-expression, and as an… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation... — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I thought for a long time that within art, that you would come up with an idea, you would labor over it… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever… — George Brecht Copy Share Image
Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, rather because it wishes to be art. However much the writer might… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
I consider that sex is part of life as much as architecture, fashion, art or food. Sex is life, simple. And I… — Olivier Zahm Copy Share Image
Once you can open yourself to joy, you feel as if you've transformed your sadness into illumination, which is really all that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Even though I'm not actually performing in the works, I love the theatrical and have this fan relationship to showbiz. And one… — Jack Pierson Copy Share Image
Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
