Art Quote by David Bayles

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.

— Meyer Schapiro

Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of…

— James Thurber

“Making art depends upon noticing things — things about yourself, your methods, your subject matter. Sooner or later, for instance, every visual artist notices…

— David Bayles

“Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have always known…

— David Bayles

“The desire to make art begins early. Among the very young this is encouraged (or at least indulged as harmless) but the push toward…

— David Bayles

“Making art can feel dangerous and revealing. Making art is dangerous and revealing. Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay between what…

— David Bayles

The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It’s not about the object, and…

— Jeff Koons

Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law…

— Herbert Marcuse

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes…

— Chaim Potok

art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe not waiting;…

— Margaret Atwood

“We have only one recourse in the face of death: make art before it happens. —René Char”

— René Depestre

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems ... Art…

— Brian Eno