All art is image making and all image making is the creation of substitutes. — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority — Mu Xin Copy Share Image
All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system. — Tommy McCarthy Copy Share Image
Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think that experiencing through art is a wonderful way to expand the horizon and everything around it. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
In civic life, I think that's where you can debate what is good taste and what is acceptable to other people, and… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
No longer do we accept the 'sublimation model' according to which 'the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
Long John I think went off the air in about '79 or something, so there was a hiatus. That's why I think… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a… — Chet Baker Copy Share Image
Often much of my work is very optimistic, or solution-based. I have always believed that art is a tool for transformation, and… — Pedro Reyes Copy Share Image
The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates… — John Berger Copy Share Image
What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small… — Franz Cizek Copy Share Image
I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in… — Marcel Duchamp 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
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art.… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
