Art Quotes And Sayings

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“There is no “must” in art, which is ever free.”
– Kandinsky

“Science is spectrum analysis; art is photosynthesis.”
– Karl Kraus

“When it is working, you completely go into another place, you’re tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That’s what it’s all about.”
– Keith Haring

“Art is a necessity – an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without the arts.”
– Ken Danby

“Art is about paying attention.”
– Laurie Anderson

“The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls ‘inspiration.’”
– Leon Trotsky

“Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.”
– Lindsay Anderson

“Art is manipulation without intervention.”
– Louise Bourgeois

“Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.”
– Louise Bourgeois

“Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.”
– Louise Nevelson

“Art is made by the alone for the alone.”
– Luis Barragan

“All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.”
– M. C. Richards

“At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.”
– M.C. Escher

“Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.”
– Magdalena Abakanowicz

“In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palm of our hand. This is the gift given to creative individuals who can identify with the mysteries of life through art.”
– Marcel Marceau

“I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.”
– Mark Rothko

“No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time, it’s just that others are behind the times.”
– Martha Graham

“Art is the greatest possible rationalization of our deepest fears, joys, and instincts as human beings.”
– Martha Mayer Erlebacher

“Art is perhaps the most inexplicable phenomenon of the human species.”
– Michael Leyton

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”
– Michelangelo

“The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I’m overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon or the sun.”
– Miro

“Art has many avenues; love is carried through many vessels. Your oceans are your colours, your ship is your brush and your treasures are in your heart.”
– Moncy Barbour

“For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained.”
– Moshe Kupferman

“The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.”
– Naum Gabo

“Art is only an aspect of our evolutionary process amid the long struggle to know and experience everything imaginable.”
– Nic East

“Art touches the soul… art is communication… it reaches out from the canvas and passes through the eyes of the viewer right into his heart where it can leave an imprint of beauty that can make the spirit sing.”
– Nina Baldwin

“Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What we call art is a game.”
– Octavio Paz

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
– Oscar Wilde

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”
– Paul Cezanne

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