Artwork Quote by Cornelia Parker

Art has to be able to match life, to respond to the ever-changing forms of the world, to electrify the audience.

— Haris Pasovic

If I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean that's…

— T.C. Boyle

So the audience, at times, lets us know actually what is so special about the show that we can't even necessarily design or predict.…

— Steve Zissis

You can't write a thing that is hermetically sealed; there has to be a way for the audience to get in and participate. I…

— Naomi Alderman

If the audience can connect with you, then you've done something that lasts. I think that's what any good art is.

— John Popper

An artwork is an arrangement of things. The ideal show for me would be if everything touched, literally touched, so that everything would blur…

— Glenn Ligon

Artwork can be a portal, a kind of rethinking and reseeing of the world as we live it.

— Todd Solondz

I wanted to represent the world as a temporary art installation continuously changing. I wanted to consider it unreal and unfinished, judge and transform…

— Olivo Barbieri

“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

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live…

— George Saunders

Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

— Ben Shahn

The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes