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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.

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

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.

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

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

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

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.

Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.

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.

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

What matters in art is not thinking but making.

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.

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

Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Do not imitate one another’s style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

While appropriation art is critical to art, it’s an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

A work of art… is not a living thing… that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives you a reaction. To some it is the wonder of man’s fingers. To some it is the wonder of the mind. To some it is the wonder of technique. And to some it is how real it is. To some, how transcendent it is. Like the 5th Symphony, it presents itself with a feeling that you know it, if you have heard it once.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

The scope of art is practically boundless; it does not begin and end with the painting of pictures and the modeling of statues; where there is room for workmanship there is room for it.

Infancy is the realm conveyed to us in dreams which look backward to the past. Adolescence, more like a work of art, is a prospective symbol of personal synthesis and of the future of humankind. Like a work of art that sets us on the pathway to new discoveries, adolescence promotes new meanings by mobilizing energies that were initially invested in the past.