Art Quote by George Inness

The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus…

— Hans Hofmann

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

— Alberto Giacometti

All art constantly aspires to the condition of music…In its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the form from…

— Walter Pater

Ideally there is a type of continuum which flows from life through the artist's sensibility and his materials... the concreteness of the object and…

— Douglas Portway

The object of art is to give life shape.

— Anonymous

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

— Allan Kaprow

Art has to be able to match life, to respond to the ever-changing forms of the world, to electrify the audience.

— Haris Pasovic

Art is a self-replicating force.

— Jerry Saltz

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to…

— Christian Slater

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

— Aristotle

The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.

— Mervyn Levy