Lewis Mumford Quotes

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Every man is an artist.

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

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

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is.

The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.

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

I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form

Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.

All art is based on non-conformity.

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking the nearest exit, art responds to a new situation by uncovering a labyrinth of problems.

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives

All good art is an indiscretion.

The only perfection which modern civilization achieves is mechanical; machines are magnificent and immaculate but the life which serves them or is served by them isn't magnificent or shiny or more perfect or more comely.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different.

In earlier times there was one king and thousands of artists painting his palace. Now you’ve got thousands of artists painting for millions of people.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Using gunpowder as a medium became a way to liberate myself.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

There's this feeling of creativity in Iceland.

I believe that art elevates humanity. I feel incredibly privileged to be part of that.