Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.
Art is what you can get away with.
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.
To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.
Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.
Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nat, are unconscious of the harmony of creation.
Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?
Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.
Don't think about making art.
The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.
Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and we used the phrase just for the Happening, to have a catchy name for it; and then it immediately got taken up and brought into use. There's no defence against that - and really it's no bad thing.
There is no progress in art.
All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius.
The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as 'That's really a very pleasant little water color you have there.
Around the mighty master came The marvels which his pencil wrought, Those miracles of power whose fame Is wide as human thought.
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
[A persons] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Every artist was first an amateur.
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
All art is but imitation of nature.
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