14,373 Quotes About Art

To be on brand is to be 100% certain of who you are and what you do, and certainly, in art and in life, is not only completely overrated, it is also a roadblock to discovery. Uncertainty is the very thing that art thrives on.

Every great artist has the sense of provocation.

If you don't have shadows, you're not in the light.

It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.

A not complete unit or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together.One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs of thought. It is not thought which needs showing.

A corollary of this has been that Christians have thought that they should only create art with a Pollyanna quality to it: paintings of birds and kittens, movies that extol family life and end happily, songs that are positive and uplifting – in short, works of art that show a world that is almost unfallen where no one experiences conflict and where sin is naughty rather than wicked.

Money may be the primary standard of value in our culture, but it also has an uncanny ability to cheapen things.

Let us tell them the painful truth, that most of these works of art are about God, whom we never mention in polite society.

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.