Art Quote by Anonymous

Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.

— Don Watson

A thing is not what you say it is or what you photograph it to be or what you paint it to be or…

— Wynn Bullock

Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.

— Gustave Courbet

Everything, if you could only see it clearly enough, like this, is beautiful and complete. Everything has its own perfection.

— Joan Lindsay

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

— Duane Michals

Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture…

— Gerhard Richter

For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.

— Stephen King

Art is all in the details.

— Christian Marclay

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

— Paul Valery

My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to those who…

— Edgar Degas

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

— Robert Delaunay

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language,…

— Gustave Courbet