"Art is expression."
- Selena Vallejos, Volcano Vista High School alumnus
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
- Edgar Degas
"Art is beauty created by the depths of our imagination."
- Lizbeth Quiroz, Cibola High School student
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
- Scott Adams
"Art is extraordinary."
- Barbara Mares, Albuquerque High School student
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
- Twyla Tarp
"Art is creative activity. When you create something means a lot to you, you practice working on that until you have achieved something special, creating something from your imagination, you start getting good skills."
- Lesly Garcia, West Mesa High School student
"So vast is art, so narrow human wit."
- Alexander Pope
“Art is anything and everything. It is an expressive, imaginative, and creative piece of aesthetic work; whether it is visual art, auditory music, dramatic theatre, performative dance, technical manufacture, grand architecture or appreciated literature. It has power to record our history and interpret our future; it gives a voice to empower those to convey a thought, message, an idea, opinion or meaning. It's what has given us a truly diverse world and culture and influenced us in many ways to always create and appreciate the skill, time and effort to bring forth something into existence.”
- Elijah Chavez, Atrisco Heritage Academy High School student
"Art is not a thing, it is a way."
- Elbert Hubbard
“Art is how you express yourself.”
- Rachel Wittwer,
Eldorado High School student
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
- Oscar Wilde
“Art is a beautiful insight of the mind.”
– Jacquelyn Yepa,
Cibola High School student
"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."
- John F. Kennedy
“Art is the physical form of thoughts one does not know how
to verbally express.”
– Gianina Revels, Sandia High School student
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."
- Leo Tolstoy
“Art is a way of life.”
– Lauren Crowder, Sandia High School
student
"Art is a harmony parallel with nature."
- Paul Cezanne
“Art is complex. To me it's a jumbled riddle, where each
viewer deciphers the meaning of the piece in their own unique way. Art is
an intense form of communication where, at least in photography, no words are
used. Instead it's the pull of an emotion being invoked that lulls audiences
into the artists creation, thus forming a raw connection between creator and
beholder.”
– Caitlin Knowlson, La Cueva High School alumnus
"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."
- Gustave Flaubert
"Art is a Wrinkle in a Forever."
– Natalie
Catanach, Albuquerque High School student
"Art is science made clear."
- Wilson Mizner
“Art is how you express yourself.”
– Rachel Wittwer,
Eldorado High School student
"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Art is a beautiful insight of the mind.”
– Jacquelyn Yepa,
Cibola High School student
"Art is the objectification of feeling."
- Herman Melville
“Art is the physical form of thoughts one does not know how
to verbally express.”
– Gianina Revels, Sandia High School student
"Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste."
- Nikki Giovanni
“Art is a way of life.”
– Lauren Crowder, Sandia High School
student
"Art is never finished, only abandoned."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"Art is passion."
- Omar Diaz, Albuquerque High School student
"Art is the definition of a person's mind and soul."
- Victoria Lopez, Albuquerque High School student
"Art is neither pretty nor ugly; it is not supposed to look perfect. Art is full of different ideas."
- Dakota Martinez, Albuquerque High School student