Art Quotes
Art must make its own way and by its own means.
Art is the expression of man’s joy in his work.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Art is the lie that makes us realize truth.
Art is the proper task of life.
What is art.. but nature concentrated?
Art is a demonstration of which nature is the proof.
George Sand
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Oh my, but art is long and our life is fleeting.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Art is not a thing, it is a way.
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Art is not a thing separate and apart; art is only the beautiful way of doing things.
Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always inspired by reality.
Dreams are the food of human progress. Poetry, like all physics, ultimately quantifies the unquantifiable that is beyond all form.
Vanna Bonta
You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, 'What is it?' In that moment art can be created.
Art is a mystery.
A mystery is something immeasurable.
In so far as every child and woman and man may be immeasurable, art is the mystery of every man and woman and child. In so far as a human being is an artist, skies and mountains and oceans and thunderbolts and butterflies are immeasurable; and art is every mystery of nature.
Art for the sake of art itself is an idle sentence. Art for the sake of truth, for the sake of what is beautiful and good — that is the creed I seek.
The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.
I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course..but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow.
Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings.
