Quotes on Art Is

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

A successful work of art is not one which resolves objective contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?

The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. In such moments activity is inevitable, and whether this activity is with brush, pen, chisel, or tongue, its result is but a by-product of the state, a trace, the footprint of the state.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.

The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.

The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.

Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic consciousness. Art is free, but it is not a free-for-all.

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.