Quotes about Art

“Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.”

“To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.”

“There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.”

“To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.”

“I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.”

“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.”

“We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.”

“Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.”

“One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.”

“You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.”

“I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.”

“Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.”

“You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.”

“I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.”

“No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.”

“Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.”

“The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.”

“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

“'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.”

“It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.”