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Everything that is good in the arts is done by some sort of diversion.
Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.
Ideally, brewers interpret history, and through science they create art.
Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.
Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.
Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.
In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know.
Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained.
I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.
The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.
Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.
I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex.
Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope.
Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.
Making art is about accepting what’s going on around you and turning it into
Art is life, life is life, but to lead life artistically is the art of life.
What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.
Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched.
Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.
Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.
What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.
If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.
I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.
To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
We now know that Art is not the truth... but rather a way of approaching the truth.
Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.
If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.
In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.
What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.
I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.
The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)
When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.
Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.
Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.
Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness - the work.
I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.
Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.
One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people.
Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.