The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about art, is that it can say number of things to people. I broad hope is… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
Painting expresses the depth and insight, the spiritual quality of the artist. If art is about life, then, while the depth to… — Millard Sheets Copy Share Image
The love of the art is what keeps me going. It's that sound that runs through my bones. — Gino Vannelli Copy Share Image
What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was… — Bruce Nauman Copy Share Image
Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others. — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it.… — Lewis Foreman Day Copy Share Image
I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense… — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I never start with what lots of people think of as a subject or a theme. They're school words, not art words.… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition. — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate.… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal… — Leopold Auer Copy Share Image
Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended,… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
