Art Quote by David Foster Wallace

“In art, the present is the eternal.”

— Kakuzo Okakura

Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.

— Herbert Read

In every work of art, the artist himself is present.

— Christian Morgenstern

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

— Robert Delaunay

Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all…

— Ben Shahn

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

— William Baziotes

Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

— Seth Godin

Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling.

— Caspar David Friedrich

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art will always be art.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Art demands constant observation.

— Vincent Van Gogh