What is art
Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.
Paul Klee
Art does not reproduce the visible, rather it makes visible.
Paul Klee
Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.
Marc Chagall
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Piccaso
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso
In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.
Pablo Picasso
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit.
Hans Hoffman
To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.
Hans Hofmann
Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.
Hans Hofmann
Art is not a thing but a moving Spirit.
George Innes
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
Robert Motherwell
Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.
Marcel Duchamp
Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.
Auguste Rodin
Art is the journey of a free soul.
Alev Oguz
Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.
Roy Adzak
Art happens, no hovel is safe from it, no prince can depend on it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.
James Abbott McNrill Whistler
When contemplating a work of art it is possible to perceive if it has been created according to the eye or to the spirit, in other words, if it projects three-dimensional reality or spiritual n-dimensionality.
Theo van Doesburg
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varying swiftness and stillness.
Mark Rothko
Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.
Lawren Harris
A work of art comes only from inside a human being.
Edvard Munch
Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Paul Cezanne
True art lies in a reality that is felt.
Odilon Redon
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
Agnes Martin
Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being… for him every other impression becomes an inner expression.
Herwarth Walden
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Salvador Dali
I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.
Grace Hartigan
Art is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Rabindranath Tagore
Art is literacy of the heart.
Elliot Eisner
Art has a voice, let it speak.
Rochelle Carr
Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
Henry Miller
Art is a consciousness-provoking vessel.
Elle Nicolai
Art is the role of a bearer of spirits.
Herbert Siebner
Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.
Joseph Plaskett
Whatever adds richness to the experience of being alive, is art.
Quang Ho
Art is love.
Holman Hunt
Art knows. Art sees beyond. Art points us in new directions that make us think and question.
Warren Criswell
Art is a necessity, an essential part of our enlightenment process.
Ken Danby
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
Alfred North Whitehead
All art is an attempt to manifest the face of God in life.
Cecil Collins
It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it, maker and beholder meet.
Kojiro Tomitaç
The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
Alfred Stieglitz
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist.
Edward Hopper
My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
Robert Rauschenberg
Art is a guarantee of sanity.
Louise Bourgeois
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
Jean Arp
If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Art and religion –they are the same thing, in the end, of course– have given man the only happiness he has ever had.
Willa Cather
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
Rene Magritte
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
Ansel Adams
Much of what is billed as "art" today is a reflection of the deep spiritual poverty that has overtaken the lives of many artists. Out of the darkness comes more darkness. Emptiness yields up emptiness.
Brian Knowles
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Angela Davis
I think of art as a glue, a cultural and social glue. It's one of the means that has served to show us the things we believe in and the things we celebrate; it has served to reinforce our relationship to each other.
Eric Fischl
Art should create an experience.
Eric Fischl
Art is a process, not a product.
MaryAnn F. Kohl
Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.
Raymond Chandler
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