Art Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must…

— Virginia Woolf

It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense in itself,…

— Giorgio de Chirico

This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun…

— Adam Weishaupt

An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness, a purposive…

— Peter London

“and the idea of nothingness — the most terrifying of all ideas, when thought of with feeling — has, in my dear master’s work…

— Álvaro de Campos

Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance through the…

— Joseph Campbell

“Sometimes to see your work’s rightful place you have to walk to the edge of the precipice and search the deep chasms. You have…

— David Bayles

...Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense of itself,…

— Giorgio de Chirico

“The reduction of experience to 'a series of pure and unrelated presents' further implies that the 'experience of the present becomes powerfully, overwhelmingly vivid…

— David Harvey

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

— Anonymous

“Art is just another way to describe and classify reality – its mystical aspects merely a function of ignorance.”

— Neal Asher