Quotes about Art

“To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.”

“It is hard to separate the art from the artist.”

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

“For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.”

“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”

“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”

“Art is the signature of civilizations.”

“Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.”

“The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.”

“Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.”

“When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.”

“Art is pattern informed by sensibility.”

“Brazil is strewn with ruins of projects - refineries, power plants - begun but never finished. Most of this investment never landed in places or industries that really meshed with the trajectory of the global economy. This wasn't state-of-the art industrial policy. The projects seemed curiously nostalgic.”

“Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.”

“Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.”

“All art is quite useless.”

“What is art but a way of seeing?”

“The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.”

“If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.”

“Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.”

“Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.”