Activity Quote by Eric Gill

Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

— Ellen Dissanayake

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

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.

— Amedee Ozenfant

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

“People experience art as a transformative or even transcendent experience when it really only reflects back and awakens parts of them that are already…

— Stewart Stafford

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

— Wayne Thiebaud

Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.

— Anonymous

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way…

— Susan Sontag

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the…

— Graham Swift

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has…

— Anonymous

A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.

— Wendy Beckett

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

— Anish Kapoor