Authenticity Quote by Daniel Kehlmann

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

— Ayn Rand

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

— Keith Jarrett

Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art,…

— Amy Sherald

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which…

— Paul Cezanne

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's…

— Herbert Read

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.…

— Albert Camus

If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?

— George Carlin

A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but…

— Q-Tip

“A writer who makes serious money is never taken seriously. Writers and artists are expected to suffer poverty and privation for their art; it’s…

— Jessica Zafra

Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a public know…

— Rokia Traore

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer…

— Sam Francis

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and…

— Wayne Gerard Trotman