Giuseppe Mazzini Quotes

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint inhumane practices, no author could write about them, and no filmmaker could delve into the thorny subjects of our time.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth

I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look.

Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.

If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

(Art is) the residue of vision.

I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the movies. It's where my head is.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

All art is erotic.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.