Abstract Quote by Dominique de Menil

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not…

— Roy Lichtenstein

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will…

— Wendy Beckett

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.

— Tyler Cowen

“Art is just another way to describe and classify reality – its mystical aspects merely a function of ignorance.”

— Neal Asher

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the…

— Gerhard Richter

People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially…

— Lucien Smith

I pray we... come to this darkness so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see, so as…

— Pope Dionysius

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

— Edgar Degas

People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.

— Victoria Legrand