Quote by David Bayles and Ted Orland

“What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?”

— Andre Dubus

Any artwork is part of something larger, grander and, you know, the situation that it's in is very important.

— Robert Barry

That’s the thing you have to understand about the whole process of art (or the work that we do) – you’re only half of…

— Austin Kleon

“The most important factor of art is the love of it; the rest will come. If you enjoy your craft, the end product is…

— Elizabeth Isaacs

“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art. ”

— E.M. Forster

“The function of art is to make people like life more than they do.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“For me, art is the desire to preserve the intangible feeling of such a moment, hidden in all the littlest details, and then to…

— Rachel Hartman

“You have to feel so much and too much- for you to be able to make good art. Sometimes, it's the only way.”

— Rej Jaen

“As Stravinsky says, art is nothing more than placing limits and working against them rigorously … and if we refuse to place them ……

— Robert Wachter

“A great work of art, if it accomplishes anything, serves to remind us, or let us say to set us dreaming, of all that…

— Henry Miller

“It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.”

— Oscar Wilde

“If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps…

— Alain de Botton