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“The most distinctive quality of artmaking is the investment of the artist’s own humanity in the finished piece.”

— Ted Orland

“The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.”

— Amit Kalantri

“There has to be something other than keeping busy that gives human life value, because our society so often functions as if ‘productivity’ and/or…

— Tasha Golden

Art is about the dynamics of the human experience.

— Danny Glover

The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

— Albert Camus

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

— Wassily Kandinsky

“Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in…

— John Green

The value of art is in the observer.

— Agnes Martin

“Art thrives in times of uncertainty.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

The purpose of art is to accumulate the human within the human being.

— Svetlana Alexievich

“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

Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.

— Millard Sheets