Art Quote by Arnold Schoenberg

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

— Childe Hassam

Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with…

— Leo Tolstoy

Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for him every…

— Herwarth Walden

The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It’s not about the object, and…

— Jeff Koons

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can…

— Al Jourgensen

I think "artistic" simply means there's more of the creator in the thing. Whether it's painting or song or movie or game, the creator…

— Jenova Chen

Art makes you see people as individual, unique human beings. Art, in that way, allows us to see each other in particulate, as opposed…

— Dee Rees

The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have,…

— Bertrand Russell

The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who…

— Darryl Anka

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

— Daniel Gilbert

“Art is a concretization of metaphysics. Art brings man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allows him to grasp them directly,…

— Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto