Art Quote by Anaïs Nin

“It should also be remembered that art created to change minds often actually does more to bolster the spirit of those already in agreement…

— Steve Turner

“Any artist is insulted by the suggestion that art is merely a matter of recording reality, and knows that it is impossible to explain…

— Joan Lindsay

An artist must smash down the systems that domesticate the mind.

— Jean Giraud

“Conversion is not for the faint of heart. It is a difficult process, requiring effort and perseverance.”

— John Sexton

“But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revalation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to…

— Patti Smith

“We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came before us is too great…

— Jessica Lave

“Art transforms those that witness the creation, into philosophers, enquirers led down a path of mind; of quiet contemplation.”

— Erik S. Lehman

“After all, the world population of artists has exploded, almost no one is not an artist now; in turning our attention inward, so have…

— Nicole Krauss

“The proliferation of creative power can transform the world for all of its inhabitants.”

— Timothy Simpson

“How to accept the diversity and mutilation of the world, while retaining the minds power for analogy and unity, so this changing world shall…

— Carlos Fuentes

There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious…

— Alan Watts

“Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a rubbish-heap limned…

— H.P. Lovecraft