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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.

— Angela Carter

Art is about forgetting all these feelings, good and bad, and trying to understand what acts will last longer, which symbols will remain in…

— Maurizio Cattelan

Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

— Robert Hughes

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.

— Gary Holland

Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.

— Guy Debord

Art lives and dies in the unique heart of he who carries it, just as all feelings only live and expand in the souls…

— Marianne von Werefkin

In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealousy, hatred, envy, and greed... . Today…

— Tawfiq al-Hakim

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Art, to be fully appreciated, must be true to contemporaneous life. It is not that we should ignore the claims of posterity, but that…

— Kakuzō Okakura

Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in…

— Walton Goggins

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