Art Quote by Edward Albee

Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand…

— Joanna Scott

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

— Laura Miller

Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

That’s the thing you have to understand about the whole process of art (or the work that we do) – you’re only half of…

— Austin Kleon

Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.

— Josef Albers

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

— Damien Hirst

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

— Corita Kent

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.

— Tyler Cowen

I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.

— Rirkrit Tiravanija

The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

— Albert Camus

“Art requires contemplation that focuses attention on the viewer developing a relationship with the work of art, not merely passively receiving a message.”

— Daniel A. Siedell

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

— Rainer Maria Rilke