Quotes on Art Is

Art is purposiveness without purpose.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual;" and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come more or less as a shocking surprise.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar... We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother-tongue.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires.

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.