Abstract Quote by Alex Grey

Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end.…

— Julia Marlowe

Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as they appear.…

— Ouida

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

— George Henry Lewes

To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.

— Piet Mondrian

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

— William Carlos Williams

“As a matter of fact, no one is more tiresome than the person who can understand only realism in art. It shows a rather…

— Aaron Copland

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

— Robert Breault

The artist's mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception. Visionary art…

— Alex Grey

All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon…

— Andre Bazin

The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

— Cesare Pavese

Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.

— Sherwood Anderson