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The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Art is the flower… life the green leaf.

Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Architecture is man’sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art is great life.

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It’s better than art because it’s from the creator.

I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.

A man can be an artist… in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey’s art is death. He’s about to paint his masterpiece.

Understand that the essence of martial arts is not the art itself, but what’s hidden deep within yourself.

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.

I guess maybe my art can be said to be a protest. I see things a certain way, and as an artist I’m privileged in that arena to protest or say publicly what I’m thinking about. Maybe the strongest work I’ve done is because it was done with indignation. Considering myself as a feminist, I don’t want my work to be a reaction to what male art might be or what art with a capital A would be. I just want it to be art. In a convoluted way, I am protesting- protesting the usual way art is looked at, being shoved into a period or category.

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Only Art is Eternal Wisdom; what is not Art soon perishes. Art is the unconscious love of all things. ‘Learning’ will cease and Reality will become known when it comes to pass that every human being is an Artist.

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

All art is the expression of one and the same thing- the relation of the spirit of man to the spirit of other men and to the world.

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.

Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered … that we are behind our age…. sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

What matters in art is not thinking but making.

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation can flow back and forth and we can be influenced by each other.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.