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Art Is Quotes by Walter Darby Bannard
- Art is not 'about.' Art is.
- Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
- Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.
- Most art is just surface noise.
- Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond…
- When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.
- Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
- The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.
- Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in…
- Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.
- Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.
- Art is there for nourishment, not explication.
- Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we…
- Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.
- Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.
- Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
More Art Is Quotes
- 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… — 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… — Clive Bell