Art Quotes

Art to me was a state: it didnt need to be an accomplishment.

The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal or conservative. I am neither liberal nor conservative nor gradualist nor monk nor indifferentist. I would like to be a free artist and nothing else and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

Above all we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish when it cannot freely select its methods and objects when it is deprived of spontaneity then society severs the root of art.

Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener.

If you practice an art be proud of it and make it proud of you. It may break your heart but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.

The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is for this reason that we are moved by the true Primitives and that the most accomplished art craftsmanship leaves us cold.

The more minimal the art the more maximum the explanation.

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.

Nature is the art of God.