Art Quote by Bertrand Russell

“An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how…

— Maxim Gorky

Every time we do anything artistic, the way it's perceived is always going to be different from the way that we had intended it…

— Simon Helberg

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize…

— Fernando Botero

An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he…

— Arnold Schoenberg

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

— Robert Longo

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .

— Ansel Adams

Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught…

— Walter Darby Bannard

Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind.

— Wes Nisker

Many of the artists are not pretending to have an objective point of view. They're revealing the subjectivity.

— Massimiliano Gioni

“Impressionism was not just a style of painting, it was a new attitude to art and life; it is this attitude that marks the…

— Neville Weston

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

— Alfred North Whitehead

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