Art Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature,…

— Paul Cezanne

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Art is a form of consciousness.

— Susan Sontag

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

— Childe Hassam

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

— Michael Leunig

Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.

— Salvador de Madariaga

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

— Anonymous

If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)

— Charles Negre

I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was not there…

— Signe Baumane

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding…

— Wendell Pierce

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

— Eduard Hanslick

What is art? Nature concentrated.

— Honore de Balzac