Art Quote by Ben Lerner

Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private…

— Richard Eyre

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

— Ali Smith

art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.

— Shelley Winters

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

— Chaim Potok

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

— Alberto Giacometti

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

— Edgar Degas

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

— Conor Oberst

Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at the moment…

— Emmet Gowin

Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

— Langdon Brown Gilkey

Art is an indecent exposure of the consciousness.

— Herbert Read

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

— Thornton Wilder