Art Quote by George Oppen

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

— James Thurber

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be…

— Nick Cave

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

— Amy Lowell

Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person…

— Andre Malraux

I think a young poet, or an old poet, for that matter, should try to produce something that pleases himself personally, not only when…

— Philip Larkin

It is every photographer's responsibility to discover new images and a new personal way of looking at things. If he can do this his…

— Alexey Brodovitch

I think the artist has an ability to draw pictures for people to where they can process these messages that otherwise they wouldn't be…

— LeCrae

What an artist worries about as he plans his pictures, makes his sketches, or wonders whether he has completed his canvas, is something much…

— Ernst Gombrich

Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his art. He…

— Edwin Land

The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask…

— Christopher Morley

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

— Paul Klee

In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment…

— Edward Weston