Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
John Ruskin
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the... →
Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.
Joanna Russ
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Bertrand Russell
At the Big Bad Lab, we build participatory art and media platforms for causes, communities and organizations we care about.
Cameron Russell