Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: art

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

The value of art is in the observer.

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

I've always loved to paint - I was studying to do an art degree when I was approached to become a model - and I've being doing some design work as well. I also love just having a quiet time, sitting in my little library at home in Brooklyn and reading or watching documentaries or listening to music.

I paint with shapes.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.