I think art education especially in this country which government pretty much ignores is so important for young people.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives is in the best sense of the word Grotesque.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible and perhaps altogether unseen.

Art is only a means to life to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way something which is overlooked not only by the public but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

The art of motherhood involves much silent unobtrusive self-denial an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out giving a piece of yourself no matter in which art form in which medium.

What I dream of is an art of balance of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing calming influence on the mind rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

Freedom in art freedom in society this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth thou art not my abyss!

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Truly fertile Music the only kind that will move us that we shall truly appreciate will be a Music conducive to Dream which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Every art and every inquiry and similarly every action and choice is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Art is an invention of aesthetics which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

I've never really had a hobby unless you count art which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion on the other hand produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Fine art is that in which the hand the head and the heart of man go together.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.