Art Quote by Ellen Dissanayake

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.

— Amedee Ozenfant

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity…

— Eric Gill

The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly insignificant .…

— Robert Dessaix

We can begin a discussion of artmaking by noting that from very early (as long ago as 200,000 years), humans have been naturally attracted…

— Ellen Dissanayake

The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.

— Lorraine Toussaint

“Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary ...”

— Wild Thing

Find a perspective that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

— Dewitt Jones

“Raising the ordinary to extraordinary”

— E.L. James

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

— George Will

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

— Camille Paglia

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me

— Chris Van Allsburg

As soon as it is seen, the extraordinary starts becoming ordinary!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan