Emil Nolde Quotes

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.

The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt to repeat the miracle that the simplest peasant girl is capable of at any time, that of magically producing life out of nothing.

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails in surmounting sterility of style or visual stereotype; it creates new beauty or it doesn't.

Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

Send anyone claiming that their RPG activity is an art form my way, and I'll gladly stick a pin in their head and deflate it just to have the satisfaction of the popping sound that makes. One might play a game artfully, but that makes neither the game nor its play art.

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

When you see or hear something beautiful, it's like that thing is transmitting a kind of energy, and if that energy helped create the work, the only thing I can do is play it when I finally show the work.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.

What is art but a way of seeing?

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing.