Art Quote by Elizabeth Bishop

No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Whereas an art that affects you in the moment, but which you then find hard to remember, is straining to bring you to another…

— Maggie Nelson

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to…

— Kehinde Wiley

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

— Renzo Piano

Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.

— David Whyte

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

— Henry James

What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so…

— Jane Hirshfield

Art is the great stimulus to life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness

— J. W. N. Sullivan

“Science seeks to understand complex processes by reducing them to their essential actions and studying the interplay of those actions--and this reductionist approach extends…

— Eric Kandel

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

— Tennessee Williams