14,373 Quotes About Art

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Art is what gets us beyond what is real. It makes reality more real. It also shortens the distance we gotta travel to see how connected we are.

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.

Art is literacy of the heart.

If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered about the glass marble at its heart. What if you wanted to reach that marble? Make sure it was still whole?You'd have to remove the layers. You'd have to risk breaking the ball for a chance at freeing it. Fear, knowledge, certainty - you'd have to be willing to let them all go.

The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.

Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.