Art Quote by Antoni Tapies Download Open image “Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.” — Antoni Tapies ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Life Meaning of life Should Thinking Thrive Viewers
Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be. — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
I believe art should be an integral part of life. I try to give my work an almost magical energy that makes the viewer… — Stephen Huneck Copy Share Image
“I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.” — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert people by… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its own. The… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Like a researcher in his laboratory, I am the first spectator of the suggestions drawn from the materials. I unleash their expressive possibilities, even… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which Japanese or… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious; such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it. — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
