Quotes on Art Is

To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making.’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

Art is a step in the known toward the unknown

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.