Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either… — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact. — Ala Bashir Copy Share Image
A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen. — El Greco Copy Share Image
The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Most contemporary artists are behind the bubble in time. They're making videos that are so incredibly boring compared to a good movie.… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art… — Sam Taylor-Wood Copy Share Image
When I do a record, it sounds more punk and raw. Or it will sound louder, or it will sound more shocking.… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
This world is not one color or culture. Everybody has a story. To tell that story or see that story reflected through… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
As Buddhists, statues are more than simply pieces of stone to us. We believe the statue of the Buddha has a kind… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication"… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle,… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake.… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
I think art is beautiful. It's decoration and adornment. But art is also a really important vessel for social change, and social… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
Photography was increasingly being seen as something outside the art world. As a sort of illustration. They just fired the director of… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
