Franz Marc Quotes

But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic Italian model: but the poetry, above all, of linseed oil and turpentine.

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.

The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions and bring sustenance to imagination. Human beings' greatest form of communication, they walk in tandem with science and play, and best describe what it is to be human.

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story- a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.

There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art, the way of saying a thing becomes a part of what is said, every work of art is unique and requires fresh attention.

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

Art is science made flesh.

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

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation.

art, n. This word has no definition.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.

In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.

The aim of art is to create space.

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.