Art
See also: Artist
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self Jean-Luc Godard
All art is subversive Pablo Picasso
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is - it's to imagine what is possible Bell Hooks
There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it Albert Camus
The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real. The supreme merit of art is that it contradicts the version of reality that obtains in social and economic life. Denis Donoghue
The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world Friedrich Nietzsche
The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being Lewis Mumford
The highest art...sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood Hermann Hesse
Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it Bertolt Brecht
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass Walter Pater
Art advances between two chasms, which are frivolity and propaganda. On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lies the freedom of art. Albert Camus
All art is but imitation of nature Seneca the Younger
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly Aldous Huxley
To be great, art has to point somewhere Anne Lamott
Art: to nudge truth along a little Jules Renard
It is Art, and Art only, that reveals us to ourselves Oscar Wilde
Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains. Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God because they induce a kind of contact with the Creator and Ruler of the Universe. Thomas Merton
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity Daniel Barenboim
The highest condition of art is artlessness Henry David Thoreau
True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities E.F. Schumacher
The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art Maria Montessori
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others Albert Camus
Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia W. Somerset Maugham
Never judge a work of art by its defects Washington Allston
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece John Ruskin
In life beauty perishes, but not in art Leonardo da Vinci
Art hath an enemy called ignorance Ben Jonson
Art is the stored honey of the human soul gathered on wings of misery and travail Theodore Dreiser
The artist is the only man who knows what to do with beauty Jean Rostand
True artists are almost the only men who do their work with pleasure Auguste Rodin