Quotes on Art Is

There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.

The secret principle of martial arts is not vanquishing the attacker, but resolving to avoid an encounter before its occurrence. To become an object of an attack is an indication that there was an opening in one's guard, and the important thing is to be on guard at all times.

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.

Art is an experience, not an object.

Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories--when his dancing days are over.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have_x000D_ said.

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain ourselves too hard trying to distinguish between the author's persona and the poem's lyrical hero. As a rule, such distinctions are quite meaningless, if only because a lyrical hero is invariably an author's self-projection.