Art Quote by Edouard Manet

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

— Burton Raffel

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

— Edouard Manet

Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Conciseness is underrated

— Sarah Dessen

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to…

— John Fowles

Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Art actually happens somewhere in the space between clarity and ambiguity, concept and intuition, thought and feeling.”

— Bert Dodson

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

— Wassily Kandinsky

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

“Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every meaning that…

— William T. Vollmann

“What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?”

— Andre Dubus