Miuccia Prada Quotes

Art is truth.

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, form or narrative content - something we had not perceived before... and perhaps reveal something to you about yourself.

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

My films are a reflection of the society I live in, what I see and observe.

With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos.

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

In every domain of art, a work that corresponds to the need of its day carries a message of social and cultural value. It is the artist who crystallizes his age ... who fixes his time in history.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them.

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.

...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.