Accuracy Quote by George Inness

The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive…

— John Ruskin

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

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for…

— Aldous Huxley

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will…

— Wendy Beckett

The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the…

— Paul Valery

The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to…

— Kehinde Wiley

“Art is a concretization of metaphysics. Art brings man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allows him to grasp them directly,…

— Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is…

— Leo Tolstoy

Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.

— Salvador de Madariaga

I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure…

— Jeffrey Lewis

Art is the great stimulus to life.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“For me, art is the desire to preserve the intangible feeling of such a moment, hidden in all the littlest details, and then to…

— Rachel Hartman