Giuseppe Mazzini Quotes

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

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.

There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Can one make works which are not works of 'art'?

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.

Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does... I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be used for a soundtrack, so it has a function in that sense, beyond itself. But painting doesn't... But I do believe that painting has a purpose.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

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

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.

Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

The role of art in society is not to resolve conflicts; rather, it is to express these conflicts and antagonisms.

The key to good art is to make something that means something to you.

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

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'.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?