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Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art.…

— Nick Bantock

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.

— John Stuart Mill

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

— Auguste Rodin

The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

— Herbert Read

“In the case of someone who is spiritual receptive, it is possible to talk of an analogy between the impact made by a work…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Art-making is an extension of the kind of spiritual process that shamans unfold in order to demonstrate the connectedness of the world beyond reality.

— Hyon Gyon

A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.

— Hans Hofmann

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

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

— Ayn Rand

Art takes nature as its model.

— Aristotle

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.

— Kafu Nagai