Able Quote by Elizabeth Hardwick

The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

— Vincent Price

The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an…

— Wassily Kandinsky

What's interesting about making art is that you take everything you know about it and you bring it up to that point, and you…

— Julian Schnabel

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

— Richard Prince

A work of art enters life very much like another human being - complicated, loaded with overtones and meaning, mysterious, enticing, obsessive, and beautiful.…

— Budd Hopkins

The purpose of art is mystery.

— Rene Magritte

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

— Man Ray

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 exists through the act of making. It has to somehow be made manifest to another person. It has to do with what one…

— Philip Taaffe

Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result…

— Robert Henri