All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life. — John Edgar Park Copy Share Image
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction. — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other. — Neal Cassady Copy Share Image
Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction. — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Art is precisely that condition which pertains when, after all analysis and reduction to parts has taken place, there remains a 'quality'… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are… — Victor Pinchuk Copy Share Image
Artists make art for themselves. Art is an honest expression. Artists who pander to their fans by trying to make music “for”… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
The work of art is a revelation of the innate goodness of matter. Matter narcissistically mirrors itself in art, with the artist's… — Donald Kuspit Copy Share Image
Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is… — William Mortensen Copy Share Image
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
You cannot dissociate birth from death, creation from destruction, good from evil. Thus any art is a form of drama standing between… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Art can mean a lot of things. At the heart of it, art is doing something you really believe in. Like my… — Ray Toro Copy Share Image
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When I was at art school, a lot of art education is about art being a means of self-expression, and as an… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, which are really forces of censorship -either religious bodies or… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
I think that there's a strong crossover in that Janis, studying the visual arts, was learning how to break it down into… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
The problem has to be answered by means of art, because you can't blast them with bliss. Tat freaks them out even… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos? — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed. — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
