Quotes on Art Is

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

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.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.

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.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

This world is not one color or culture. Everybody has a story. To tell that story or see that story reflected through art is extremely valuable to the community. The arts belong to everyone and our work should reflect that diversity.

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.