Art Quote by Fernand Leger

“But you will tell me this is an inartistic age, and we are an inartistic people, and the artist suffers much in this nineteenth…

— Oscar Wilde

“I think he is the ornament of society! Oh, there is not just one role for the artist in society. He has many roles…

— Peter Taylor

“An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how…

— Maxim Gorky

“We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.”

— Oscar Wilde

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed

— Daniel Gilbert

“The artist striving for truth or sincerity had to guard his spontaneous vision against distortion or alteration by aesthetic conventions or preconceptions.”

— Linda Nochlin

“Many 18th- and 19th-century artists rejected, criticized, or ignored the Industrial Revolution. Instead of uplifting man, industry seemed to demoralize and dehumanize him. Men,…

— Jesse Bryant Wilder

“The appeal of modern art remained a mystery to him.”

— Dan Brown

“After the dazzling orgies in form and color of the eighteenth century, art was put on a diet, and allowed nothing but the straight…

— Victor Hugo

“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than…

— Claude Monet

“Now observe; if the artist does not understand the sacredness of the truth of Impression, and supposes that, once quitting hold of his first…

— John Ruskin