Art Quote by Ansel Adams

I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So if you have a sense…

— Jeff Koons

“People experience art as a transformative or even transcendent experience when it really only reflects back and awakens parts of them that are already…

— Stewart Stafford

A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.

— John Marin

It's very interesting how life imitates art, and art imitates life; I find, whenever I read scenes of some magnitude, I'm like, 'Oh, I…

— Katherine Moennig

“Art makes the familiar strange so that it can be freshly perceived. To do this it presents its material in unexpected, even outlandish ways:…

— Viktor Shklovsky

“When we see, we do so many things: we experience what is happening in a direct way; we discover something we never noticed or…

— Donis A. Dondis

My intention was to create a work of art which would transcend the visible, which cannot be perceived except in stages, with the understanding…

— Yaacov Agam

“For me, a certain sign of quality or class in art is that when I read, see or listen to something, I suddenly get…

— Anonymous

Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they…

— William Gaddis

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and…

— Albert Einstein

Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights…

— Pauli Murray

All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind ,…

— Joseph Conrad