Art Quote by Anonymous

“Merely corroborative detail intended to give artistic verisimilitude to a bald and——”

— W.S. Gilbert

Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

— Clive Bell

The perfection of art is to conceal the sources.

— Austin O'Malley

It's unfortunately true that if you mess up a single detail of the art world the whole thing seems false, and most writers are…

— Rachel Kushner

In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that can interfere…

— Gerhard Richter

“A storyteller who provided us with such a profusion of details would rapidly grow maddening. Unfortunately, life itself often subscribes to this mode of…

— Alain De Botton

“It's strange. When I put something incomprehensible into a picture, it's usually because the form and colour interest me and because it just happens…

— Fernand Khnopff

“Works were expected to be microscopically accurate, properly ‘finished’ and formally framed, with proper perspective and all the familiar artistic conventions,”

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Plots are interesting, characters are fascinating, scenery can be totally enveloping,” Morrison says, “but the real art is the deep structure, the way that…

— John Freeman

“It is the purpose of art to heighten the mystery”

— David William Richards

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but…

— Georges Braque

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

— Russell Sherman