Art Quote by Anaïs Nin

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the…

— Anais Nin

“It must be remembered that no art lives by nature, only by acts of voluntary attention on the part of human individuals. When these…

— C.S. Lewis

“Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.”

— Paul Klee

“The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity.”

— Ralph Ellison

“People experience art as a transformative or even transcendent experience when it really only reflects back and awakens parts of them that are already…

— Stewart Stafford

“Art is, in its purity, an aesthetic means of expression in a time of rising neglect.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

“Art is the refreshing source of existence.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“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

“Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates…

— Kamand Kojouri

“That is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Neal Asher

“One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover.”

— Anonymous