All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music, because, in its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the form from the matter, the subject from the expression; and to it therefore, to the condition of its perfect moments, all the arts may be supposed constantly to tend and aspire.
Art Quotes
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Great artists need great clients.
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
A Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that’s a luxury I cannot afford.
Let us suppose for a moment that the Western world has been hugely fragmented and splintered in its consciousness and its individualism for many centuries. And that under electric conditions it is being integrated and merged together again at a very fast clip. The question for us is, all right, if this is happening, what […]
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Painting is the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
