I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I think when people try to use their art for political views, I think they're art becomes smaller, less interesting. And so… — Sean Lennon 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
If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context… — Danger Mouse Copy Share Image
If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would… — Diane Frolov Copy Share Image
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos? — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines,… — Egon Friedell Copy Share Image
I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
