is its otherness from reality.
-Susanne Langer
Art is a method of levitation,
in order to separate one's self
from enslavement by the earth.
-Anais Nin
The only time a human being is free
is when he or she makes a work of art.
-Friedrich von Schiller
There is no progress in art,
any more than there is progress in making love.
There are simply different ways of doing it.
-Man Ray
If the artist's will is not strong
he will see all kinds of inessential things.
-Robert Henri
The price we pay when we pursue any art or calling,
is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
-James Baldwin
That which is not worth contemplating in life
is not worth recreating in art.
-Ayn Rand
Art is the sex of the imagination.
-George Jean Nathan
Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock;
but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
-Marya Mannes
To show his work is vital for the artist,
the sine qua non of his existence.
-Edouard Manet
Don't worry about making art, just get it done.
Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad.
Whether they love it or hate it.
While they are deciding, make more art.
-Andy Warhol
The progress of an artist
is a continual self-sacrifice,
a continual extinction of personality.
-T. S. Eliot
The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned,
in order to know himself.
-E. E. Cummings
Art is the final cunning of the human soul
which would rather do anything than face the gods.
-Iris Murdoch
The artist who becomes thoroughly aware
consequently ceases to be one.
-Henry Miller
Don't you know that every perfect life
would mean the end of art?
-Robert Musil
"To become an Artist" means nothing:
whereas to become alive, or one's self,
means everything.
-E. E. Cummings
Art is the final cunning of the human soul
which would rather do anything than face the gods.
-Iris Murdoch
The artist who becomes thoroughly aware
consequently ceases to be one.
-Henry Miller
Don't you know that every perfect life
would mean the end of art?
-Robert Musil
