Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

Art is the ability to communicate through an intermediary and to convey one's feelings through an isolated object. It's inspiration and incubation. Putting my subjective feelings into an objective form and then on to you for a subjective interpretation.

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

There is nothing that art cannot express.

What matters in art is not thinking but making.

Without electricity, there can be no art.

...it was the arts, those noble expressions of the human spirit that are communicated through literature, dance, song, film, drama, painting and sculpture, among the many other such creative means, that helped articulate the sufferings of [these] people that were heard around the globe.

Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.

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

Great art can only be created out of love.

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

Making art is an act of courage. Do you know who said that?

The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive.

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.

It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand I think that one needs to experience resistance in a practical sense, and even that which is poignant to bring out what makes easy reading for others. Too much deprivation of course, means death.

It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.