Accidents Quote by Charles Baudelaire

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.

— Tyler Cowen

“It must be remembered that no art lives by nature, only by acts of voluntary attention on the part of human individuals. When these…

— C.S. Lewis

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

— Richard Prince

The only thing that is not art is inattention

— Marcel Duchamp

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

— Marcel Duchamp

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, with which we can know the presence of God.

— Anne Truitt

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.

— Anne Truitt

We will always need to be reminded that we are human. Art gives us that.

— Carmen Cusack

Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception.

— Jeremy Begbie

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will…

— Wendy Beckett

Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.

— Odilon Redon

“The problem is, of course, that art typically requires an audience, which loops us right back to the problem of observing actions and losing…

— Maggie Nelson