Art Quote by Ayn Rand

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and…

— Egon Friedell

...Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

— Rabindranath Tagore

I think if art has one underlying value, it's that.

— Tavares Strachan

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.…

— Ansel Adams

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

— Anonymous

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

“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

The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized, forgotten, invisible…

— Yasumasa Morimura

Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception,…

— Marco Tempest

Art is the soul of a people.

— Romare Bearden