Art Quote by Albert Camus

All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the…

— Albert Schweitzer

Only art means anything.

— Edward Gorey

There is no art without a poetic aim.

— Edouard Vuillard

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

— Herbert Read

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

— Clive Bell

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

— Aristotle

Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“As symbol, or as the structuring of symbols, art can render intelligible -- or at least visible, at least discussible -- those wilderness regions…

— Annie Dillard

“It is not sufficient for artistic expressions to serve as "signposts declaring what it is to be fully human." They should impart a vision…

— Ron Brackin

There is no art when one does something without intention.

— Duke Ellington

I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are made or…

— Richard Diebenkorn

Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of…

— Henri Matisse