Art Quotes - random
If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
Kesh: "I appreciate M.I.A.. A real artist."
I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
Art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity in this life…
With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art.
The artist who becomes thoroughly aware consequently ceases to be one.
Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
Passivity, like the passivity of India induced by religion, is destructive both to human life and to art.
What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Among other ends, modern art is related to the ideal of Internationalism.
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Art imitates Nature, and Necessity is the Mother of Invention.
The time of year when the devil comes and spews art over London.
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.