Aesthetics Quote by Anonymous

When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.

— Walter Darby Bannard

The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive…

— John Ruskin

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

— Emma Goldman

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at the will…

— Paul Gauguin

Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.

— Deborah Eisenberg

Painting expresses the depth and insight, the spiritual quality of the artist. If art is about life, then, while the depth to which the…

— Millard Sheets

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points…

— Henry Miller

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

— Robert Rauschenberg

“The Work of Art. When I watch the audience at a concert or the crowd in the picture gallery I ask myself sometimes what…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Let's talk about the artist's desire to go beyond the pictorial or the representational and the desire to create the abstract - the idea…

— Kehinde Wiley

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean…

— Marlene Dumas