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Fine art can only be defined as exclusive, negative, absolute and timeless. It is not practical, useful, related, applicable, or subservient to anything else.

1957

★ 0.8

In order to approach the spiritual in art, one employs reality as little as possible... This explains logically why primary forms are employed. Since these forms are abstract, an abstract art comes into being.

1914

★ 0.9

Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it, I know that it has hold of me forever.. .Color and I are one. I am a painter.

1959

★ 0.9

Autobiography and memoir

Sculpture should walk on the tips of its toes, unostentatious, unpretentious, and light as the spoor of an animal in snow.

★ 0.9

A hint-don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! Study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which will result, which is the only way to ascend towards God-to create like our Divine Master.

1888

★ 1.0

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of trouble and depressing subject matter. An art which might be for every mental worker, be he businessman or writer, like an appeasing influence, like a mental soother, something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

1908

★ 1.0

I obey Nature, and never do I dare give orders to it. My only ambition is servile fidelity to it.

1910

★ 1.0

When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do.

Narcissus and Goldmund · 1930

★ 1.0

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

The Guardian · 1988

★ 1.0

The erotic or the sexual is the root of "art"; its first impulse.

Claes Oldenburg

★ 1.0

There are Six Essentials in painting. The first is called spirit; the second, rhythm; the third, thought; the fourth, scenery; the fifth, the brush; and the last is the ink.

925

★ 1.1

I want anyone tired, worn down, driven to the limits of endurance, to find calm and repose in my painting.

1913

★ 1.1

The only valid thing in art is that which cannot be explained.

1957

★ 1.1

Great art picks up where nature ends.

1965

★ 1.1

A good collaboration produces universal thinking.

Robert Rauschenberg

1987

★ 1.1

I want to make work so people can be moved by a sense of the possible.

2000

★ 1.1

The best pictures, and from a technical point of view, the most complete, seen from nearby, are but patches of color next to each other, and only make and effect at a certain distance.

Vincent van Gogh

1885

★ 1.2

Interview · Magazine

The blue period was not a question of color. It was an inner necessity to paint like that.

1956

★ 1.2

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

1966

★ 1.2

I don't think you can really put a monetary value on a painting.

1968

★ 1.2

Personal journal

Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.

Leonardo da Vinci

1519

★ 1.3

Personal journal

This benign nature so provides that over all the world you find something to imitate.

Leonardo da Vinci

1519

★ 1.3

We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake... The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

1818

★ 1.8

The works of art, by being publicly exhibited and offered for sale, are becoming articles of trade, following as such the unreasoning laws of markets and fashion; and public and even private patronage is swayed by their tyrannical influence.

Albert, Prince Consort

1851

★ 1.8

Art should be independent of all claptrap-should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it.

James McNeill Whistler

The Gentle Art of Making Enemies · 1890

★ 1.8

Throughout the ages, man has conquered tragedy with his ability to create works of art.

1964

★ 1.8

Interview · Magazine

Even the act of peeling a potato can be a work of art if it is a conscious act.

Artforum · 1969

★ 1.8

I'm using art as a means of changing myself, as a means of breaking out of a category.

1971

★ 1.8

Everybody I have ever known or read about who was really a great artist has worked until they dropped dead.

2009

★ 1.8

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

Francis Ford Coppola

2011

★ 1.8

Interview · Magazine

Art is a completed pass. You don't just throw it out into the world-someone has to catch it.

2013

★ 1.8

Limitations are really good for you. They are a stimulant. If you were told to make a drawing of a tulip using five lines, or using a hundred, you'd have to be more inventive with the five.

★ 1.8

Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive.

Leon Battista Alberti

1435

★ 1.9

The great design of art is to restore the decays that happened to human nature by the fall, by restoring order.

1704

★ 1.9

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold: For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage.

1713

★ 1.9

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

The Stones of Venice · 1851

★ 1.9

Human life is a sad show, undoubtedly: ugly, heavy and complex. Art has no other end, for people of feeling, than to conjure away the burden and bitterness.

Gustave Flaubert

1864

★ 1.9

Play · Comedy (play)

All art is collaboration.

John Millington Synge

1907

★ 1.9

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

1930

★ 1.9

Religious literature

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

1955

★ 1.9

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