The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form. — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
The real value of art is not always revealed by the price set upon it. — Jeffrey Loria Copy Share Image
Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Art is all about becoming a name, a brand; it isn't based on talent or creativity. — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion. — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you… — Dominique Swain Copy Share Image
Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized,… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
Art is something someone made. It's a product of human endeavor. As such, it's not that different from having a conversation with… — David Salle Copy Share Image
The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
I still hope that more people can create art, even though artistic genres may never be the most popular or money-making genres.… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Art is my 'solo career' if you like. Musically, as a bass player, I depend on other musicians to play, whereas, with… — Horace Panter Copy Share Image
In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Everywhere I've been, from South Africa to Brazil, people are connected to it. For me, art is a way to bring people… — eL Seed Copy Share Image
If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Music, and art for that matter, to me is not about true meaning to anyone else but yourself. If I told you… — John O'Callaghan Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Art begs you to notice it. Why? Because art is God's way of saying hello. So pay attention to poetry. Pay attention… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
A lot of abstract painters seem to be doing everything all at once now. And so these different styles are jibing and… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
The 10 or 12 artists I have known really well all my life are at least as competitive as professional athletes. They… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image