Art Quote by Edgar Degas

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it…

— Corin Nemec

Art is an artifice that you try to make seem natural.

— Sam Lipsyte

“Art is not a metonym for truth telling. All art is a form of a falsifying; otherwise why would anyone need art to tell…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

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

— Childe Hassam

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and…

— Egon Friedell

Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.

— Meher Baba

Art is an attempt to give substance to existence.

— Sondra Horton Fraleigh

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of…

— Stephen King

Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception,…

— Marco Tempest

Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.

— Salvador de Madariaga