Artwork Quote by Ali Banisadr

We're living in a world where everything moves very quickly. We've become a very visual society, so I think it's a very natural thing…

— Stan Lee

Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half the work;…

— Vik Muniz

Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in…

— Walton Goggins

I can't believe that 100% of the people who stand in art galleries looking at art are thinking, 'Well, here I am, looking at…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give us the…

— James Elkins

Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.

— Sarah Schulman

Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they…

— William Gaddis

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without…

— Robert Rauschenberg

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

— Damien Hirst

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

— Jeff Koons

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

— Alberto Giacometti