Art Quote by Ali Smith

What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things...

— Tracey Emin

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

— Theophile Gautier

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

— Eric Gill

There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and…

— John Galsworthy

I like the idea of my art being a covetable object; I like preciousness. A lot of art seems to flaunt its throw-away character...…

— Grayson Perry

“Just as that puzzled savage who has picked up - a strange cast-up from the ocean? - something unearthed from the sands? - or…

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.

— Helmut Newton

“The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a…

— Audrey Niffenegger

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails in surmounting…

— Jerry Saltz

The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to…

— Kehinde Wiley