Art Quote by C.S. Lewis

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

— C. S. Lewis

We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first…

— C. S. Lewis

"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Art is a kind of rapture. Surrender enough, you find truth.”

— Kirsty Eagar

Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. For nothing is more precious than…

— Patti Smith

“Art is a witness to both our fallen world and hope for its redemption.”

— Daniel A. Siedell

Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist…

— Anonymous

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana