The beautification of the world is not a work of nature…

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring…

— Aristotle

“All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline…

— Edith Schaeffer

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

— Craig Ferguson

Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're…

— Jerry Saltz

Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For photography to be an art involves reformulating notions of art, rejecting both material and formal purism and also the separation of art from…

— Peter Wollen

Concrete, Steel & Paint portrays the core values of restorative justice-respect, responsibility and relationships-expressed through art. it is art that involves victims, offenders and…

— Howard Zehr

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

— John Ruskin

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.

— Lana Del Rey

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol…

— Oscar Wilde

A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed the greater…

— Gerhard Richter

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

— Luis Bunuel

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write…

— Damien Hirst

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

— Bernard Berenson

Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work…

— Marcel Duchamp