Art is Happening
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Art is not a study of reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
George Sand
Mark Rothko
Art is life, intensified, brilliant life.
Alain Arias-Misson
Art is above all an adventure of the mind.
Eugene Ionesco
Art is a cultural and social glue. It's one of the means that has served to show us the things we believe in and the things we celebrate; it has served to reinforce our relationship to each other.
Eric Fischl
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.
Andre Maurois
Art is more than a mere cultural frill, it is a crucial factor of human experience, the means of self-revelation, the basis of empathy with others; it inspires both individualism and responsibility, the giving and the sharing of experience.
Tom Hudson
Art is one of the few things in today's world that is completely personal and original and expresses what is human.
Brent Heighton
Art is a staple of mankind … So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.
Jamake Highwater
Art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.
Roy Adzak
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind.
John Lubbock
Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
Gertrude Stein
Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Bertolt Brecht
Art is anything people do with distinction.
Louis Dudek
Art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard
Art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall
Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.
Modest Mussorgsky
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
Robert Motherwell
Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative spirit in us toward a higher world; a world in which all ideas, thoughts, and forms are pure and beautiful and completely clear. All works that have in them an element of joy are records of this adventure.
Lawrence Harris
Art revives and readapts time and space, invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
Leonard Bernstein