Art Quote by Albert Camus

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life…

— Charles Ives

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

— Richard Foreman

I've always taken the view that works of art are not just things that we enjoy. They can convey truths about the world more…

— Roger Scruton

Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.

— Jane Smiley

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of…

— Franz Marc

It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend had better…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

— Fernando Botero

Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your work.

— Dianne Reeves

Art can be a kind of therapeutic, or kind of a fantasy life, or wish fulfillment...o r creating this alternate universe. Art gives me…

— Raymond Pettibon

The very freedom and expressiveness we find missing in life we find present in art.

— Nicholas Wolterstorff

I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to…

— Jeff Koons