Quotes on Art

If you want to enjoy your life fully and liberate yourself from mechanistic explanations of life, then embrace your artistic sense that you were born with as we all were. One promising benefit you get from doing art like writing, painting, singing, dancing, or whatnot is that you can wash off all the corruptible.

• ART is a deep reflection of our existence and experience on Earth. - Art collector, Raymond Learsy

• The reason we need art is to help us feel. The artist's job is to feel. - Visual artist, Brian Kershisnik

• If we trust our eyes, not our preconceived ideas of what things ought to look like, we shall make the most exciting discoveries. - Painter, Edward Manet

• There is no such thing as Art. There are only artists...To enjoy them (works of art), have a fresh mind. It is no mental short circuit.  There is danger of half-knowledge and snobbery...There is great music without words, so there is great painting without an important subject-matter...the sheer beauty of the visible world. - E.H. Gombrich

• Art is spiritual. It makes a connection between things that are separated. - Artist, Anselm Kiefer

•  Nature always reflects and expresses man’s emotions. - J.M.W. Turner

• A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. a good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is. - Philosopher, Lao Tzu

• Human artistic expression is blessedly, refreshingly nonessential. It means I am not exclusively chained to the grind of mere survival. It means we still have enough space left in our civilization for the luxuries of imagination and beauty and emotion and even total frivolousness. It is something better than a necessity; it is a gift… it is a wild and unexpected bonus from the universe. - Elizabeth Gilbert, writer