Art Quote by Andrei Tarkovsky

When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“Life is short, art is infinite.”

— Oscar Wilde

Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

All things that are living are expression and therefore part of the inherent symbology of life. Art, therefore, that is encumbered with excessive symbolism…

— Marsden Hartley

Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any…

— Philip K. Dick

Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture…

— Gerhard Richter

At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as…

— Andrew Graham-Dixon

All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the…

— Albert Schweitzer

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image…

— D. H. Lawrence

What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“An artistic image is one that ensures its own development, its historical viability. An image is a grain, a self-evolving retroactive organism. It is…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The work of art, though bound by its genetic markings and indelible fingerprints, is boundless in the infinite elaborations of its destiny, and therefore…

— Russell Sherman