Top 49 Art Reflection Quotes
#1. Ignorance of the ages leaves me all but lifeless.
Not alone has it burnt sacred religious works,
but works of literature, art, philosophy, poetry,
astronomy, n' medicine, but to name a few.
Richard Mc Sweeney
#2. Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.
Francis Schaeffer
#3. My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.
Edvard Munch
#4. Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.
Jean-Luc Godard
#5. Art is a reflection on life. Life isn't something we can cut and fix. It's always in a state of flux.
El Anatsui
#6. The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.
Okakura Kakuzo
#7. Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.
George Steiner
#8. Sometimes it seems to me that, in the end, the only thing people have got going for them is imagination. At times of great darkness, everything around us becomes symbolic, poetic, archetypal. Perhaps this is what dreaming, and art, are for.
Helen Garner
#9. The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.
Clement Greenberg
#10. I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.
Edgar Degas
#11. This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to reflect upon. Reflection is an activity.
Thomas Hirschhorn
#12. Eloquence is an art of saying things in such a way (1) that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure; (2) that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.
Blaise Pascal
#13. When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.
Bill Viola
#14. If you immerse yourself too single-mindedly in your chosen art form whether it's video games, movies, comics or whatever, your work can easily become just a reflection of what others are doing in that field rather than breaking new ground.
Jordan Mechner
#15. Art is a reflection of poetry and beauty of the heart and mind without the use of any words.
Debasish Mridha
#16. When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.
Max Ernst
#18. But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
Bill Crawford
#19. Van Gogh, among others, believed in the religion of art, which, whatever else it involved, made it clear that art is more than the sum of its material characteristics and not simply a reflection of everyday life.
Donald Kuspit
#20. A white lace curtain on the window was for me as important as a great work of art. This gossamer quality, the reflection, the form, the movement. I learned more about art from that than I did in school.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#21. You dive deeper, you strip away the cleverness and the words become more important than your ego and that's when you know it's real, when it's good.
Kamal Ravikant
#22. Wherever the gaze rests, art will draw it also elsewhere, will remind that there is always more. Alice does not stop and face her own reflection in the looking-glass: she travels through it.
Jane Hirshfield
#23. Because there's such a long tradition of the arts being very prominent and very varied in Cuban culture and society, people do use the art world as a space for critical reflection and people look to it for that.
Rachael Price
#24. Art is ... a reflection of a greater divine creation. There really is no separation.
Sufjan Stevens
#25. Art is a relection of the mind and a vision of the heart.
Debasish Mridha
#26. Through art we can see the reflection of the inner world of an artist.
Debasish Mridha
#27. With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about patronage, Patronizing the Arts will appeal to a broad audience.
Jonathan Culler
#28. Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre shoots from Lycidas in a twentieth perusal. The portraits of Clarendon are mellowed by every year of reflection.
Robert Aris Willmott
#29. Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
Bruce Lee
#30. A composition - and every work of art is one - is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection. For there will always be an element of chance in the creative process.
Jostein Gaarder
#31. TV is a language all its own, a land of one dimensional stereotypes that destroys culture, not adds to it. TV is anti-art, a reflection of consumerism that serves the power structure. TV is about demographics.
Roseanne Barr
#32. I can see my reflection like that of an angel!
And I feel that I am dying, and, through the medium
Of art or of mystical experience, I want to be reborn,
Wearing my dream like a diadem, in some better land
Where beauty flourishes.
Stephane Mallarme
#33. An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.
C.S. Lewis
#34. The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#35. Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.
Michel O'Brien
#36. The art world has always been an unrelenting taste machine, but now flavors of the month have morphed into flavors of the minute. Again, all a reflection of a wider cultural condition. I mean, the art world is slow compared with the music and movie businesses.
Barbara Kruger
#37. Art is an imagination, projection, and reflection of the mind in a particular form that society can internalize and enjoy.
Debasish Mridha
#38. I've had people come up to me with the strangest interpretations of what my lyrics might mean, and I'm like, "You go! I never thought of that, but that works,"...I think that true art is a universal reflection, and true artists are just messengers of that reflection or, at best, skilled presentors.
Serj Tankian
#39. Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.
Horace Mann
#40. No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
Edgar Degas
#41. The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.
Vincent Van Gogh
#42. The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.
Rudolf Arnheim
#43. Just another point of view, I'm just a reflection of you.
Bootsy Collins
#44. The art of reading, in short, includes all of the same skills that are involved in the art of unaided discovery: keenness of observation, readily available memory, range of imagination, and, of course, an intellect trained in analysis and reflection.
Mortimer J. Adler
#45. In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.
Criss Jami
#46. Music is reflection of self.
Eminem
#47. Hogarth ranks among those pictorial creators who have discovered the expressive force of the brushstroke as well as of color and its harmonies. He makes his entry into art as a reflection of Hals and Velasquez.
Rene Huyghe
#48. The Queen, bless her heart, has cultivated procrastination to a degree which is really an art
when one is vexed, as I fear I often am, one should recall that the Bowes Lyons are the laziest family in the world. Against this reflection it becomes remarkable that she accomplishes so much.
Arthur Penn
#49. Beauty ... is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
Oscar Wilde
