Amitava Kumar Quotes

What is art but a way of seeing?

What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

That's really the whole point of art - it's to take something commonplace and draw people on a path so that, all of a sudden, they have a new impression of everything around them.

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 is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.

Art is a sense of magic.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.

It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

I believe in art.

There isn't any art until some creature sees and consumes it. And has a reaction.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, form or narrative content - something we had not perceived before... and perhaps reveal something to you about yourself.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

Surprise is key in all art.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

Art can go beyond certain boundaries or blindness that we would have without that.