Art Quote by Bauvard

“Art is not a mirror held up to society but a hammer with which to shape it.”

— Bertolt Brecht

“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Art is not a mirror to hold up to reality, rather a hammer to shape it.”

— Anonymous

“The value of an artwork is rooted in assumptions about the human performance underlying its creation”

— Anonymous

“Individuality is the highest, deepest form of art.”

— Gregor Collins

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

— Ted Orland

“Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.”

— Anonymous

“But perhaps the the great work of art has less importance in itself than in the ordeal it demands of a man and the…

— Albert Camus

“...the special quality of works of Art being to produce the momentary conviction that anything else whatever could not possibly be so good.”

— M.P. Shiel

“Just like a sculptor takes time to mould a sculpture, take your time to hone your skills too.”

— Mitta Xinindlu

“We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. The objects that provoke aesthetic emotion vary with…

— Clive Bell

“In art vanity is equally fatal to sympathetic feeling, whether on the part of the artist or the public.”

— Kakuzō Okakura