Art Quote by Asger Jorn

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

— Jerry Saltz

Even the uncaptioned art photograph is invaded by language in the very moment it is looked at: in memory, in association, snatches of words…

— Victor Burgin

Artists have historically understood images better than anyone else. This is what we do.

— Trevor Paglen

The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with…

— Camille Paglia

Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness

— Alan Moore

The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and…

— Carl Jung

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the…

— Gerhard Richter

By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

— Scott McCloud

The language of images [of inner-oriented artists] does not follow a code structure that is evident and widely accepted, but is more likely to…

— Kenneth Coutts-Smith

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

— Chath Piersath

The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so…

— Edvard Munch

Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.

— Meher Baba