A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms. — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art,… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
3D is like a computer. Every six months that computer that was state of the art is now obsolete. — Carl Mazzocone Copy Share Image
I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it. — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys...… — Sarah Copy Share Image
There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads… — Paul Russo Copy Share Image
The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could… — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up. — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Indeed art is fundamental : to science, mathematics and to language. Unfortunately theorists, educators, parents and administrators have not fully understood its… — John A. Hiigli Copy Share Image
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
