African american Quote by Haile Selassie

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for…

— Haile Selassie

The art world would have you believe that anything can be art. But, of course, there's actually many things that aren't art. And we…

— Grayson Perry

Art should be born from the materials.

— Jean Dubuffet

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would…

— Henri Bergson

Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.

— Isamu Noguchi

I think from an artist's point of view, everything in art, in fact everything in the world is available as material.

— Michael Craig-Martin

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

— George Bernard Shaw

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

— Paul Gauguin

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?

— May Sarton

But what is art other than revealing human nature?

— Marina Abramovic

The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land…

— Gretel Ehrlich

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life…

— Charles Ives