Art Quote by Edgar Degas

The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.

— Jeff Wall

My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever touch it.

— George Brecht

My theory is that if I can stay present in the moment in my life as frequent as possible the artwork will be more…

— Ruston Kelly

Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result…

— Robert Henri

Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your work.

— Dianne Reeves

I'm dedicating myself to an art form that takes a lifetime to master.

— Cody Fern

It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to…

— Sally Mann

The only thing that is not art is inattention

— Marcel Duchamp

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

— Sam Lipsyte

A work of art is only of interest, in my opinion, when it is an immediate and direct projection of what is happening in…

— Jean Dubuffet

The greatness of art is not in the display of knowledge, or in material accuracy, but in the distinctness with which it conveys the…

— George Inness

Creating art is like being sick - you bring up all your innermost thoughts, and then you have to ask yourself why you're doing…

— Goldie