The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy. Author: Clive Bell |
All I owe the world is my art. Author: Sherman Alexie |
Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem. Author: Lindsay Anderson |
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. Author: Max Beckmann |
The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it. Author: Max Bill |
There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless. Author: Clive Bell |
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. Author: William Blake |
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. Author: Albert Camus |
We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction. Author: Max Bill |
If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions. Author: Catherine Drinker Bowen |
Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death. Author: Leonard Baskin |
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. Author: Rudolf Arnheim |
More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result. Author: Damon Albarn |
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. Author: Theodor Adorno |
Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. Author: Theodor Adorno |
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Author: Scott Adams |
A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art. Author: Wendy Carlos |