Quotes on Art

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

What I dream of is an art of balance.

Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he discovered the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of idealogy [sic], that mankind must first of all eat and drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, religion, art etc.

Art is something that grows and breathes and lives, and it shouldn't be predicated on the success of box office - but it is. But within that, you have to give people a chance to find their voice, to play, to continue to create.

Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts.

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

My introduction to art history was like everybody else's. You see an art history book that has works by Rembrandt and Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Yes, these things are great. But I don't see a reflection of myself in any of these things I'm looking at.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.

The value of art is in the observer.

Know why people run marathons? …Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles, Starry Night, intravascular surgery; they all had their roots in our ability to run. Running was the superpower that made us human — which means its a superpower all humans posses.

I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.

There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.