A spiritual search in art is looking for meaning outside of yourself. — Ross Bleckner Copy Share Image
Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect. — August Bournonville Copy Share Image
Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
What fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
One of the most obvious uses of literature, I think, is its encouragement of tolerance... Bigots and fanatics seldom have any use… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I'm very tolerant of other art and other artists. But what I truly appreciate, what I truly admire in contemporary art, is… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
What I strive most to achieve in art is to make you forget the material. The sculptor must... communicate whatever struck his… — Medardo Rosso Copy Share Image
That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think art has a right — not an obligation — to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go… — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born,… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I think that there is a purity aesthetic, like "I just make art because I'm an artist and I can't help it.… — Mirah 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
I've never felt that I was doing something for my people, except what I could to bring the accomplishments of the old… — Bill Reid Copy Share Image
What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I guess maybe my art can be said to be a protest. I see things a certain way, and as an artist… — Nancy Spero Copy Share Image
