The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
If art is to flourish in the twenty-first century, it must renew its moral authority by rededicating itself to life. It must… — Frederick Hart Copy Share Image
It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination. Images are it's only wealth. It does not classify objects, it does not pronounce them… — Benedetto Croce Copy Share Image
A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess… — Alexander Morozevich Copy Share Image
But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional. — Nathan Sawaya Copy Share Image
I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of… — George Inness Copy Share Image
It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete... with Dada I also have in common a certain mistrust… — Jean Tinguely Copy Share Image
I have found that long durational art is really the key to changing consciousness. On such a deep level. Not just the… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
It's pretentious to say, but my art is like a little Zen story, a story with a question mark at the end.… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
