Aesthetic Quote by Andrei Tarkovsky

Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end.…

— Julia Marlowe

“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

Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.

— Sherwood Anderson

Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.

— Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

“As a matter of fact, no one is more tiresome than the person who can understand only realism in art. It shows a rather…

— Aaron Copland

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

— William Carlos Williams

real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.

— Emily Carr

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it…

— Corin Nemec

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

— Cesare Pavese

Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition,…

— Benjamin Haydon

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

— Odilon Redon