Quotes on Art Is

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories. That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul. Not theories but your own creative individuality alone must decide.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

The highest art is no art. The best form is no form.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

Art...is the intentional act of using your humanity to create a change in another person...Passion is caring enough about your art that you will do almost anything to give it away, to make it a gift, to change people.

A great work of art is one that truly moves and inspires you. You yourself must be moved. Don't look at art with others' eyes. Don't listen to music with others' ears. You must react to art with your own feelings, your own heart and mind.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

Pop art is about liking things.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Much of our lives involves the word “no.” In school we are mostly told, “Don't do it this way. Do it that way.” But art is the big yes. In art, you get a chance to make something where there was nothing.

I think bridges have a special meaning in our life. I think a book is a bridge. Any type of art is a bridge that allows different cultures to connect. You may not understand your neighbour's way of seeing life, but you sure understand your neighbour's joy in painting or dancing.

I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist.

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

Pop art is a way of liking things.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.