Approximation Quote by Andrei Tarkovsky

Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience--but when one unmistakably isn't such an…

— H. P. Lovecraft

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one…

— William Dobell

Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity.

— Kazimir Malevich

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

— Piet Mondrian

The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive…

— John Ruskin

“Art transcends selfish and obsessive limitations of personality and can enlarge the sensibility of its consumer. It is a kind of goodness by proxy.…

— Iris Murdoch

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

— Gustave Courbet

“Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.”

— Elizabeth Isaacs

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he…

— Oscar Wilde

Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

— Langston Hughes

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Art has something to do with beauty. The act of creating beauty pulls the portion of your soul to the surface that is true…

— Timothy Simpson