The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature. — George Inness Copy Share Image
Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me. — Thomas Leuthard Copy Share Image
All art is autobiographical - if it's not, it's not going to quicken on-stage, and it's not going to come alive. — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand — Dan Brown 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
The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
This is what art is all about. It is weaving fabric from the feathers you have plucked from your own breast. But… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think what's important for myself and anyone else who wants to create a film, or art, is [to] make sure that… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
Look at your work and it tells you how it is when you hold back or when you embrace. When you are… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Art is something about the spirit... if you want to make something that has a spirit, and speaks to the spirit of… — Shary Boyle Copy Share Image
The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes… — Susan Sontag 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
If you want to know what true art is: Go outside on a clear night, wait until it gets very, very dark,… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
Art is a process of concentration. It is both the distilled essence and the commentary upon otherwise mundane activities and reflections. Musical… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Made up of corallitic accretions and painful increments, lit on rare occasions by bolts of revelation, and then stuffed behind the wainscotting… — Harold Town Copy Share Image
Comics are a "young" art form, and there is much confusion as to how to treat them. Images have more immediate impact… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a… — Jorge Luis Borges 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
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