Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

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

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

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.

How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt to repeat the miracle that the simplest peasant girl is capable of at any time, that of magically producing life out of nothing.

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.

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

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.

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

Everything an artist spits is art.

Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing, work-making activity of the human mind. By Poetry I mean, not the particular art which consists in writing verses, but a process both more general and more primary: that intercommunication between the inner being of things and the inner being of the human Self which is a kind of divination (as was realized in ancient times; the Latin vates was both a poet and a diviner). Poetry, in this sense, is the secret life of each and all of the arts.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

art, n. This word has no definition.

In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.

It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increasingly capable, of man's deepst capacities... I seek to paint of how form manifests its subtlest quality named 'idea.

Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.

Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

But of works of art little can be said.

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?

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.

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

An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.