You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of matter exists... →
Antoine Lavoisier
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
D. H. Lawrence
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You... →
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
Sol LeWitt
All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.