Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it. — Francine du Plessix Gray 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
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business. — Robert J. Flaherty Copy Share Image
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. — John Berger Copy Share Image
You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
comedy is a high form of art becaus it brings us more joy than anything else, practically but at the same time,… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really -… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Living through art is a better way to live - not necessarily making art, but being surrounded by art. I think it's… — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image
Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate.… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Painting expresses the depth and insight, the spiritual quality of the artist. If art is about life, then, while the depth to… — Millard Sheets Copy Share Image
The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
I think Twitter is the literature of the 21st century. I think it's an incredible art because when you make a book,… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
The only way to make a criticism of something is to really participate in it. I'm a completely capitalist person. I participate… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Yes, would to God that I could persuade the rich and the mighty that they would permit the whole Bible to be… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
