Cave Paintings:Lascaux, France
Magical Thinking: What is Art?
Magic is taken for granted. Not card trick magic, or Houdini escape magic, or making an elephant disappear magic, but love and friendship magic, dawn and sunset magic, music magic, and the magic of art. Most of us enjoy one or another art and leave it at that. But some, including many artists, ponder, and try to define art. Some of the definitions are magical in themselves.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. Pablo Picasso
Art is a kind of illness. Giacomo Puccini
Art is the triumph over chaos. John Cheever
Art disturbs, science reassures. Georges Braque
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. Twyla Tharp
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Oscar Wilde
Fantasy united with art is the origin of marvels. Francisco de Goya
Art is a selective re-creation of reality. Marcel Proust
Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art. James Bailey
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. André Gide
The most important function of art and science is to awaken religious feeling. Albert Einstein
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. Theodore Dreiser
Art is an intimate exchange between two sensibilities that can be unconnected in either time or space. Stuart Hodes
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. Marshall McLuhan
What is not art? Anonymous.
Magic is taken for granted. Not card trick magic, or Houdini escape magic, or making an elephant disappear magic, but love and friendship magic, dawn and sunset magic, music magic, and the magic of art. Most of us enjoy one or another art and leave it at that. But some, including many artists, ponder, and try to define art. Some of the definitions are magical in themselves.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. Pablo Picasso
Art is a kind of illness. Giacomo Puccini
Art is the triumph over chaos. John Cheever
Art disturbs, science reassures. Georges Braque
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. Twyla Tharp
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Oscar Wilde
Fantasy united with art is the origin of marvels. Francisco de Goya
Art is a selective re-creation of reality. Marcel Proust
Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art. James Bailey
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. André Gide
The most important function of art and science is to awaken religious feeling. Albert Einstein
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. Theodore Dreiser
Art is an intimate exchange between two sensibilities that can be unconnected in either time or space. Stuart Hodes
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. Marshall McLuhan
What is not art? Anonymous.
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