Art Quote by Douglas Portway

Art is elimination of the unnecessary.

— Waldo Salt

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

— Pablo Picasso

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist…

— Bernard Berenson

Art is precisely that condition which pertains when, after all analysis and reduction to parts has taken place, there remains a 'quality' which is…

— Douglas Portway

Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether…

— Clive Bell

Art is an attempt to give substance to existence.

— Sondra Horton Fraleigh

Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.

— Sol Saks

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

— Constantin Brancusi

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

— Seneca the Younger

Art is purposiveness without purpose.

— Anonymous

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter...

— Henri Matisse