No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how...
In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.
I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.
A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh approach to fiction.
Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.
My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.
The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.
Art must take reality by surprise.
Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.
