Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in… — Jane Urquhart Copy Share Image
Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation. From its ceaseless urge to create springs all… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life. — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another. — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Comics are a "young" art form, and there is much confusion as to how to treat them. Images have more immediate impact… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I have a hunger for justice, but art is a place I've always enjoyed being able to be free - to live… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
That's what I like about the idea of the aesthetic experience, the idea of both enjoying looking at works of art and… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate. — Martin Mull Copy Share Image
The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
