Art Quote by George Eliot

“The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies… Art is the nearest thing…

— George Eliot

Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it.…

— Tristan Tzara

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of…

— Franz Marc

Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact,…

— Vernon Lee

Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is…

— Randall Jarrell

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.…

— Ansel Adams

Art brings to life things that can seemingly be dead, and can put a fresh perspective on things that are living. It's so important…

— Mark Foster

Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty-- his escape from the sordid realities of life into a world of…

— Paul Outerbridge

Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope.

— Kehinde Wiley

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.

— Bruce Lee

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

— Rabindranath Tagore