Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
(...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is… — Molly Elliot Seawell Copy Share Image
My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics. We're talking about a… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
The power of art is as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; it's just where war destroys, art inspires. But in order… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art. — Bennie Wallace 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
No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My art is for anybody, it's for people who wouldn't go into an art gallery. It's art for the people. — Julian Beever Copy Share Image
Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
