Ali Smith Quotes

I believe that art has incredible power.

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.

I still hope that more people can create art, even though artistic genres may never be the most popular or money-making genres. But the thing is, I think art is more long-lasting. It stays in people, and it changes them.

Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.

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

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

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.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.

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

Art is the great stimulus to life.

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

We started to confuse entertainment with art, because art has a component of entertainment. It has to have that or it becomes too boring. It becomes too lost in its own devices. But I just think that we started to lose, and even before that, it's not necessary.

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

Everything an artist spits is art.

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.