Art Quote by Agnes Martin

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

— Lafcadio Hearn

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of…

— John Ruskin

The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon…

— George Bellows

“Ideals are like an image of reality at a given time from a given reality. Just like no photograph of a person can truly…

— Awdhesh Singh

There is a certain comfort that comes from feeling intellectually apart from phenomena. That you have the luxury of time to reflect or apply…

— Carrie Brownstein

“Wherever one looks in the realms of creative endeavor, one finds the greatest architecture, music, art, sculpture, drama, ritual placed in the service of…

— Gordon B. McKeeman

“To write without any awareness of a tradition you are trying to become a part of would be self-defeating. Every artist alive responds to…

— Dorianne Laux

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we…

— Paulo Coelho

A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record…

— Michel de Montaigne

For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my…

— William-Adolphe Bouguereau

My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling…

— Joyelle McSweeney

“I have studied the art of the ancients and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I no longer…

— Gustave Courbet