Art Quote by Andre Gide

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

— Andre Gide

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

— Niklas Luhmann

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

— Joyce Cary

Art is doing something you really believe in.

— Ray Toro

“It is often said that great works of art are “inexhaustible”—capable, as Stanley Olson put it, of “endless interpretation. But Lubin, the Charlotte C.…

— Roger Kimball

... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

— Daniel Bell

“A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

— Albert Camus

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why…

— Guy Davenport

There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

— Paul Gauguin

What the work of art looks like isn't too important.

— Sol LeWitt