Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them. — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku. The moon glows,… — Santoka Taneda Copy Share Image
art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Art is the principal way in which the human mind has tried to remake the world in a way that makes sense.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
We have basic urges all the time. They just manifest themselves in different scenarios, and we have to turn those weaknesses into… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed. — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change. — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
The meeting of science and art is definitely interesting for the 21st century, and I think to use scientific expertise and knowledge… — Marc Quinn Copy Share Image
Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Outstanding past work in photography, and in fact in all the arts, is very important to today's photographers. But it should be… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art… — Aden Young Copy Share Image
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The important thing about Paris is not so much that one sees exciting work, but one meets people who feel that art… — John Olsen Copy Share Image
You can't really have art without having a sense of community as art is for others to enjoy as well. — Jaime Zevallos Copy Share Image
Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
When I first came to New York, I knew some painters older than myself. I was kind of the kid who was… — David Salle Copy Share Image
The term comics long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. Sequential Art… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
Art is like an avalanche being poured down your throat. You know it's going to crack, eventually it's going to go out… — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
The woman who needs to create works of art is born with a kind of psychic tension in her which drives her… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
No longer do we accept the 'sublimation model' according to which 'the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It… — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
