Art Quote by Edvard Munch

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

— Edvard Munch

To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.

— Noah Taylor

My opinion of art is that a man should have love for it, because my idea is that he paints from his heart and…

— Horace Pippin

Art is emotion without desire.

— Muriel Barbery

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

— Julia Cameron

Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

— Leo Tolstoy

It's not our art, but our heart that's on display.

— Gary Holland

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.

— Jane Smiley

I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope.

— Nick Hornby

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's…

— Felix Mendelssohn