Art Is Quotes

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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
Art is born of humiliation. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. — Christian Bale
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious. — Lester Bangs
I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. — Scott Adams
Art is an attempt to integrate evil. — Simone de Beauvoir
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. — Beck
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. — Max Beckmann
A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and… — Clive Bell
We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose… — Clive Bell
Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man… — Pope Benedict XVI
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. — Theodor Adorno
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime. — Theodor Adorno
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. — Theodor Adorno
Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support… — Theodore Bikel
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. — William Blake
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of… — Alvar Aalto

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