Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive. — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams. — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices. — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein Copy Share Image
If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become. — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible. — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision. — Katherine Sophie Dreier Copy Share Image
I think that my responsibility to my art is to try to get it right or to push the boundaries of what… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Art is not some inessential frippery - it is the nation's means of intelligently regarding itself. To cripple or stigmatize the arts… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive?… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
I feel like you have to make art because you have to make it. But the end result of it- that last… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the… — J. M. W. Turner Copy Share Image
My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics. We're talking about a… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
Pythagoras said that the most divine art was that of healing. And if the healing art is most divine, it must occupy… — Apollonius of Tyana Copy Share Image
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights… — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The art is about opening, it is not about prejudice, it is not about contempt prior to investigation. It's about endlessly trying… — William Hurt Copy Share Image
Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of… — Adamo Macri Copy Share Image
A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co-creator… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
The task of art is to take hold of the shining, the radiance, the manifestation, of that which as spirit weaves and… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
![“They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology.” quote by Sean Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a80/sean-lennon-11288_alive_they-say-rock-is-dead-andy-warhol-said-a_1500677.jpg)
![“I feel like you have to make art because you have to make it. But the end result of it- that last stage- you have to show it to somebody else to hopefully get a rise or reaction out of them- [to see] if it’ll affect someone else.” quote by Frank Iero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/154/frank-iero-7162_art_i-feel-like-you-have-to-make-art-because_329097.jpg)
![“He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes have been shined? How much mascara put on? Rouge? How many of those impossible bowties have been tied? How many love songs have been sung? How many dances have been danced?…” quote by Wynton Marsalis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6ff/wynton-marsalis-1721_art_he-benny-carter-is-all-that-every-jazz-m_2002120.jpg)
