Art Quote by Aldous Huxley

“A sculpture of the magnificent shape of God. Oh, admittedly it was a shallow rendering of That Which Cannot Be Named; but art is…

— Laird Barron

“Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can…

— Rebecca West

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

— Aldous Huxley

“The mystery of esthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the god of the creation, remains within or behind or…

— James Joyce

AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS AS A…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“I have enormous respect for the reader. They are able to take symbols from a page that an author has invented, and turn them…

— Lynette Willows

“If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling its most vivid moments,…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“The esthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of esthetic, like that of…

— James Joyce

“One of the strangest things is the act of creation. You are faced with a blank slate—a page, a canvas, a block of stone…

— Vera Nazarian

“The details that are life's special pattern, like how in handwoven rugs what really makes them unique are the tiny flaws in the stitching,…

— Lauren Oliver

“New forms of the artistic register are one of the infallible signs of an authentic moment.”

— Christopher Hitchens

No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human…

— Rudolf Arnheim