Art Quote by e. e. cummings

The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism into the secret…

— Anonymous

“The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective…

— E E Cummings

Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of…

— Stephen King

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

— Herbert Read

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

— Anonymous

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in…

— Henri Bergson

...Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

— Cesare Pavese

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

— Emma Goldman

Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the…

— Herbert Marcuse

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

— Aristotle