Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Art Quotes
Art is the proper task of life.
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world.
I have only too much of a wife in this art of mine, who has always kept me in tribulation, and my children shall be the works I leave, which, even if they are naught, will live for a while. (on why he hadn’t married and started a family)
Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
The artist picks up the message of cultural and technological challenge decades before its transforming impact occurs. He then builds models or Noah’s arks for facing the challenge at hand.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.
The new age of education is programmed for discovery rather than instruction. Art as radar environment, radar feedback, early warning system: the antennae of the race.
I think that 95 percent of what passes for art in this world is complete and utter shit. And 4 of the other 5 percent is shit with an asterisk. But oh, that 1 percent makes you proud to be a human, doesn’t it?
