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Art to me is a question mark.
Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.
Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.
Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
Less art, more matter
It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all of oneself, and that becomes 'art' in time.
Art is anything you can get away with.
Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.
Art is an artificial organization of experience ...
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.
Self-expression is not enough; experiment is not enough; the recording of special moments or cases is not enough. All of the artshave broken faith or lost connection with their origin and function. They have ceased to be concerned with the legitimate and permanent material of art.
Art ... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.
Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.
That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.
Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.
To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.
Art needs to stand for something.
All good art is an indiscretion.
Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.
Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly occupied with her own perfection only - having no desire to teach.
Art is whatever you can get away with.
Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .
Art is but imitation of nature.
Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.
Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion without a purpose.
Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.
Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.
If there is on earth, and among all these things of nothing, a belief worthy of adoration, if there is anything holy, pure and sublime, anything answering that immoderate desire for the infinite and the vague that we call the soul, it is art.
Art is a positive "FORCE" that bring beings together for the common good. Only the people who had lost a piece of themselves can create the unimaginary.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
What is art, if not an excuse to be adventurous?
Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.
("Talking In The Dark")
As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.
To the viewer, who has little emotional investment in how the work gets done, art made primarily to display technical virtuosity is often beautiful, striking, elegant ... and vacant.
Art does not come from thinking but from responding.
Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no 'me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action.
Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
Art is the outward integration inspired by the artist's inner disintegration.
Art, at least art as I define it, is the intentional act of using your humanity to create a change in another person.
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
An art dies when it describes itself instead of life - when it turns from the expression of man's feelings in the void, to a mere description of the void.
Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.
Art is a reflection of poetry and beauty of the heart and mind without the use of any words.
There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.
Art needs an operation
No art comes from the conscious mind.
Art is what makes life more interesting than art.
Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.
I want to know art.
Art doesn't explain itself.
Art depends on luck and talent.
That which takes effect by chance is not an art.
Anything can be art: painting stairs, raising a child, or organising a trip to the end of the world. It's the way you live that makes you either an artist, or an art connoisseur, or an unsatisfied critic.
Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.
To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.
Art is a side product of a perfect frendship or the lack of it...
Art is nothing; it's a way.
There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and actually saying everything is art. We're all art, art is just a tag, like a journalists' tag, but artists believe it.
Art without heart is craft.
Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Art is a kind of illness.
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
There is only good art and mediocre art.
Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.
I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.
In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant.
art is worthless
unless it plants
a measure of splendor in people's hearts
When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.
Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally ...
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
Art is a subset of creativity.
Art for me ... is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.
Art made tongue-tied by authority.
I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.
Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.
Art is man determined to die sane.
Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.
Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.
Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. You know, it doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define, but there you are, right there, in the meantime.
Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
What is art? ( ... ) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life - love and sacrifice.
Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.
Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.
When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.
The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
Art is to see beauty in everything you see everyday.
There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that.