Chaim Potok Quotes

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

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

Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium.

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

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.

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

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

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.

I feel like at the end of the day, as entertaining as movies are, when you're part of them in a way, it's this beautiful art form and that's what it feels like for me. I'm not a painter, but I can express myself visually in a way that allows me to artistically create.

Many great works of art have only form, the sculpture of the thing. Color as used to signify realization by men like Titian and Rembrandt, gives greater life and tactile experience to the work.

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by virtue of its existence as a complete organism is both ornamental and self-sufficient as to color, form, and texture, so art, because of its singular existence is more than mere ornament.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.

Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.

Art is a form of consciousness.

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

For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life.

What I love in art is that it takes known combinations and reorders them in a way that sheds light on something that they have never seen before or allows to consider the world in a slightly different way.

I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.