Art Quote by Anonymous

“The problem is, of course, that art typically requires an audience, which loops us right back to the problem of observing actions and losing…

— Maggie Nelson

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has…

— Anonymous

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

— Philip Schultz

Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half the work;…

— Vik Muniz

How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question why we…

— Martin Firrell

The greatness of art is not in the display of knowledge, or in material accuracy, but in the distinctness with which it conveys the…

— George Inness

I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come…

— Ben Folds

Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have…

— Alain de Botton

Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing -…

— Henri Matisse

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

— Saul Bellow

A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art demands constant observation.

— Vincent Van Gogh