Quotes about Art

“Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.”

“Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.”

“I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.”

“All art is a confession.”

“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”

“The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.”

“All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.”

“We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.”

“Trying to force creativity is never good.”

“An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.”

“He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.”

“To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.”

“Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.”

“Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.”

“All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.”

“The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.”

“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”

“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

“When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.”

“Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.”