Art Quote by Anna Deavere Smith

I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex.

— Carrie Brownstein

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

— Matthew Collings

Art is so subjective--it means something different to every person. The important thing for it to do is to touch on the senses and…

— Michelle Malone

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

— Chath Piersath

Art is more than a product of your efforts - it should be about feeling, life, attitude, soul.

— Sergei Bongart

I think that art has the ability to capture people's imaginations and make them think that more is possible.

— Shepard Fairey

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some…

— Ai Weiwei

People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially…

— Lucien Smith

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world

— Andre Maurois

Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more…

— China Mieville

Art exists through the act of making. It has to somehow be made manifest to another person. It has to do with what one…

— Philip Taaffe

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us. We don't have to rely totally on experience…

— Mary Oliver