Art, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as “One day a wag – what would the wretch be at? Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god’s name! . . .”
Art Quotes
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restrainst it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Art is the triumph over chaos.
Artlessness, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.
I think that one’s art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.
Painting, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Only a few achieve the colossal task of holding together, without being split asunder, the clarity of their vision alongside an ability to take their place in a materialistic world. They are the modern heroes… Artists at least have a form within which they can hold their own conflicting opposites together. But there are some […]
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself – life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
Art is frozen Zen
