Franz Kafka Quotes

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

Art like life is an open secret.

Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.

Insight is the first condition of Art.

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

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

You can be very honest without telling the truth, at least in art.

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to take those things which we call common-place and to 're-present' them to us - the world - in such ways that our self-imposed limitations are expanded.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

Make good art.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

When I first made a grid, I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees, and then a grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, 'This is my vision.'

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.