The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.
Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.
The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.
Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.
In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
Art is the objectification of feeling.
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.