Art Quote by Edgard Varese

“He’s unconscious now. He’s unconscious every time I leave him.”

— Bryce O'Connor

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in…

— Saul Bellow

From the very beginning, art meant something very important to the people who made it. It was a correspondence of the emotions to what…

— Milton Resnick

It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not in the…

— Antonin Dvorak

Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing.

— Giorgio Vasari

As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly,…

— Charles de Lint

I think that one of the most important things that art can do is give you a reason to look at something, almost give…

— Trevor Paglen

It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have…

— Thom Mayne

You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Art is a concretization of metaphysics. Art brings man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allows him to grasp them directly,…

— Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto

When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism.

— Howard Jacobson

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson