Art Quotes
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Art is created in the light, but art history is studied in the dark.
Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours.
People don't know what they like, but they like what they know.
When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.
...interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
I want to arrive at a direct apprehension of reality without the intermediary of a concept. I often end up in darkness and failure because of the impossibility but I prefer it all to all of the other so-called marvels of the visionary world. Good art is not what it looks like but what it does to us. Its value lies in its power to modify and not merely to modify but reorganize our sensibility. For to submit to a new mode of seeing, to enter a world where we can be liberated from our stereotyped ways of seeing and feeling -- now that is more important to aim for all of one's life and perhaps never achieve than to aim for less and know that in the end you've made a bad investment with your life.
Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.
The demand of readers for brand new material which is just like what they've already read is a publishing reality, and it can be found behind virtually every best seller. (The same principle applies - even more strongly - to the less literate media: television, movies, popular music.)
There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays to his dignity in a campaign in which he is defeated in advance.... War cannot be negated. One must live it or die of it. So it is with the absurd: it is a question of breathing with it, of recognizing its lessons and recovering their flesh. In this regard the absurd joy par excellence is creation. "Art and nothing but art", said Nietzsche, "we have art in order not to die of the truth."
Great art is a irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively, then it is art.
Thinking directly in terms of colors, tones, images, is a different operation technically from thinking in words...if all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist. There are values and meaning that can be expressed only by immediately visible and audible qualities, and to ask what they mean in the sense of something that can be put into words is to deny their distinctive existence.
Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
Art us vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
Life without industry is guilt, industry without art is brutality.