Art Quotes

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Art is the proper task of life.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.