Art Quote by Gabe Polsky

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.

— Amedee Ozenfant

If we have free will, by definition we cannot be granted it. We can't be given it. My [-audio-recording-distorted-] paradox states that 'Of course…

— Christopher Hitchens

The greatness of art is not in the display of knowledge, or in material accuracy, but in the distinctness with which it conveys the…

— George Inness

An artist needs to become familiar with that which is most hidden from the self by the self. For this one thing which one…

— Pat Steir

It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

— Oscar Wilde

“We see beauty in simplicity because we can see its underlying efficiency.”

— Andrew Thomas

Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.

— Henry David Thoreau

A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more…

— Marcel Proust

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

— Ansel Adams

“Individuality is the highest, deepest form of art.”

— Gregor Collins

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

— John Ruskin