Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained. — Moshe Kupferman Copy Share Image
All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer. — Melissa Pritchard Copy Share Image
Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered. — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good… — Invader Copy Share Image
Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies,… — Pauli Murray Copy Share Image
Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
There are things going on in galleries recently that have shocked me. What I'm going to say is really controversial, but what… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen -… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
I use my platform for more than just myself. Art is a reflection of human emotions. To neglect the political is to… — Zendaya Copy Share Image
“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe… Our… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process… — Gao Xingjian 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
All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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