Art Quote by Edgar Alwin Payne

Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted...

— Sigfried Giedion

One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings -…

— Edward Lucie-Smith

In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his…

— Eugene Delacroix

All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.

— Marcel Duchamp

The work of art, though bound by its genetic markings and indelible fingerprints, is boundless in the infinite elaborations of its destiny, and therefore…

— Russell Sherman

An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse…

— Robert Motherwell

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make…

— Susan Sontag

Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing -…

— Henri Matisse

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

— Will Durant

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When a work of painting, music or other form attains two-way communication, it is truly art. One occasionally hears an artist being criticized on…

— L. Ron Hubbard

Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however…

— Andrei Tarkovsky