The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art. — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it. — Noah Taylor Copy Share Image
Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand. — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Art is a window to The Infinite, and opening to the goddess, a portal through which you and I, with the help… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created… — T. Allen Lawson Copy Share Image
Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art. — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
Art makes people do a double take and then, if they're looking at the picture, maybe they'll read the text under it… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me. — Thomas Leuthard Copy Share Image
I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual,… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
