Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.
Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
The work of art is a scream of freedom.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.
The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
All art is political in the sense that it serves someone’s politics.
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
You don’t have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.
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.
Art is the window to man’s soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.
I’m the seventh child among eight siblings and have always had a gift for art.
What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It’s not what you see that is art; art is the gap.
Art is for anyone. It just isn’t for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that’s irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
