Cusani Art Quotes

Business Art is the step that comes after Art. ~ Andy Warhol

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) ~ Benjamin Constant

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art. ~ Robert Breault

Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

Art becomes art only when it's shared with others. ~ Ben Tolosa

Art experts are unfailingly opposed to Art for the simple reason that they are interested in Art - but Art is not interested in Art. Art is interested in life. ~ Stephen Vizinczey

Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine. ~ Yann Martel

Art has a voice - let it speak. ~ Rochelle Carr

PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals. ~ George Maciunas

Art should be expressed without objectification.It's more than just attraction. Creative expression is not "art for art's sake" but art that breathes true meaning. ~ Henry Johnson Jr

Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art static. There are no rules. ~ Raymond Salvatore Harmon

God, my God, omnipotent King, I humbly adore thee. Thou art King of kings, Lord of lords. Thou art the Judge of every age. Thou art the Redeemer of souls. Thou art the Liberator of those who believe. Thou art the Hope of those who toil. Thou art the Comforter of those in sorrow. Thou art the Way to those who wander. Thou art Master to the nations. Thou art the Creator of all creatures. Thou art the Lover of all good. Thou art the Prince of all virtues. Thou art the joy of all Thy saints. Thou art life perpetual. Thou art joy in truth. Thou art the exultation in the eternal fatherland. Thou art the Light of light. Thou art the Fountain of holiness. Thou art the glory of God the Father in the height. Thou art Savior of the world. Thou art the plenitude of the Holy Spirit. Thou sittest at the right hand of God the Father on the throne, reigning for ever. ~ St Patrick

With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable. ~ Thomas Hoving

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art. ~ Jerry Saltz

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses. ~ Willa Cather

The definition of Christian art is to be found in its subject and its spirit. Everything, sacred and profane, belongs to it. God does not ask for "religious" art or "Catholic" art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth. ~ Jacques Maritain

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different. ~ Damien Hirst

Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made. ~ Ananda Coomaraswamy

Everything is art,' Tim says, a far-off look suddenly clouding those hazel eyes. 'Death is art. Life is art. Pain is art. ~ Jen Violi

Art is an expression that transcends religion, culture, country, people and time. ~ Amit Ray

Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only business, then rock expressed that transcendental, religious yearning for communal, nonmarket esthetic feeling that official art denied. For a time during the seventies, rock culture became the religion of the avant-garde art world. ~ Dan Graham

Nudity is an art. Besides, art is only nudity... There's no more art, only too much civilization. Art is barbarious... Art is loneliness... Nothingness is perfect nudity. ~ Raul Ruiz

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art. ~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I found it amazing people can think that art must be connected to religion. Religion may give art themes, but there would still be art without religion. Bach is not proof that art exists. ~ Michel Onfray

Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all. ~ Bill Reid

Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care. ~ Pierre Soulages

If you can't make art, make your life a work of art. ~ Andre Malraux

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words. ~ Andrea Bocelli

Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another. ~ Sara Blecher

Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think. ~ Paul Cezanne

Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway. ~ Edward Abbey

In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough. ~ Eric Drooker

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art. ~ Andy Warhol

Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of art that is necessarily difficult in genuine art. Repin, or kitsch, is synthetic art. ~ Clement Greenberg

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. ~ Dante Alighieri

Art expresses complex intangible feelings we can't explain in any other way. Art is everywhere, art is love; love is God; God is art. They're one and the same. ~ J. Matthew Nespoli

Art is only art if it is synonymous with living ~ Alexander Girard

Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language. ~ Walter Darby Bannard

Everywhere you walk, every place you go is full of art, explicit or hidden! If you can see them, you will be the richest art collector and your memory will be the richest art gallery! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings. ~ Sol LeWitt

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between. ~ Robert Hughes

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well. ~ Marketa Irglova

Art, when inspired with love, leads to higher realms. Love art and that art will open for you the inner life. ~ Meher Baba

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot. ~ Steve Martin

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances. ~ Edmund Wilson

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court. ~ Lawrence Lessig

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art. ~ Sol LeWitt

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless. ~ Ed Sheeran

The proper school to learn art is not life but art ~ Oscar Wilde

Art is for all - and the greatest art proves it. ~ William Soutar

Diplomacy: the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash. ~ Art Linkletter

Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can not be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise. ~ Ezra Pound

I don't have the education of an art historian. I've certainly read about art and look at art and have educated myself to some extent. But I'm not a skilled or thorough art historian and I wouldn't call myself an art critic. ~ Lynne Tillman

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices. ~ Arthur Symons

Drawing is the honesty of the art. ~ Salvador Dali

Art provides us with clues about how to live our lives more fully ... about how creating, collecting, and even just appreciating art can make daily living a masterpiece. ~ Michael Kimmelman

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable. ~ Susan Sontag

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. ~ Epicurus

In bluntest terms, art museums risk being commercial institutions in which art is subsumed by economics and the experience of looking at art becomes a form of consumption. ~ Amy Whitaker

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art. ~ Angela Carter

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art. ~ Walter Darby Bannard

All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons. ~ Roy Lichtenstein

Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer. ~ Ole Hallesby

Art is what appeals to the a priori. ~ Raheel Farooq

Every work of art is about everything. ~ Eli Siegel

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually. ~ Joseph Kosuth

Orna Davidzon : the avant-garde queen of private art collection ... ~ Imran Shaikh

What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist's subject be religious to be Christian? I don't think so. There is a certain sense in which art is its own justification. If art is good art, if it is true art, if it is beautiful art, then it is bearing witness to the Author of the good, the true, and the beautiful ~ R.C. Sproul

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography. ~ Tom Stoppard

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art. ~ Paul McCartney

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye ... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. ~ Edvard Munch

All art is infested by other art. ~ Leo Steinberg

I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art. ~ Ian McLeod

Art can permeate the very deepest part of us, where no words exist. ~ Eileen Miller

Humans make art to remember and be remembered," said Caius. "Art is their weapon against forgetting. ~ Melissa Grey

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

For photography to be an art involves reformulating notions of art, rejecting both material and formal purism and also the separation of art from commerce as distinct semiotic practices that never interlock. ~ Peter Wollen

If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. ~ Jeanette Winterson

To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art. ~ Hans Ulrich Obrist

A work of art is like a person: it has more than one soul in its breast. ~ Alfred Brendel

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art. ~ Romain Rolland

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art. ~ David Elliott

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later. ~ Frank Stella

That art is best which suggests most. ~ Austin O'Malley

I miss art. I miss art. Life would be worth living if I had art. ~ Julianna Baggott

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition. ~ Lawren Harris

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life. ~ Fran Lebowitz

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art. ~ Bennie Wallace

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive. ~ Moby

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? ~ Paul Gauguin

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down. ~ Stephen Rea

No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place. ~ Elfriede Jelinek

The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less. ~ Albert Camus

The art of making art, is putting it together ... ~ Stephen Sondheim

Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression. ~ Brian Christian

The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity. ~ Alonzo King

I don't believe too much in originality ... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is the point of departure to do your work of art. ~ Paterson Ewen

Art has always been aware of itself as art. ~ Mary Ruefle

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time. ~ Don Paterson