Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and… — John Marin Copy Share Image
Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill. — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding. — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form. — Francois Delsarte Copy Share Image
Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art is about the context in which it is made as much as the object itself; objects take on different meanings in… — Matthew Slotover Copy Share Image
Why are other people profiting off that? I can see that if I have the page and sold it for $50 and… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
I think the biggest thing that people fear when it comes to art becoming a business is those authentic, pure aspirations of… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Ancient tradition always depicts a true Chinese musician as blind. Esoterically, this implies that his gift of the divine art is so… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image