|
"Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth."
-Pablo Picasso
"An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and is usually too busy to wonder why."
-William Faulkner
"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the symbol do so at their own peril."
-Oscar Wilde
"There is no surer method of evading the world than by following art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by art."
-Goethe
"The subject matter of art is life as it actually is; but its function is to make life better."
-George Santayana
"Art is the objectification of feeling."
-S. Langer
"Art is the human activity whose purpose is the transmission of the highest and best feelings to which men have attained."
-Tolstoy
"The world of aesthetics is an ideal world."
William James
"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."
-David Hume
"Art is dead."
-Dieter
|
