Art Quote by George Saunders

I mean, artistic processes are all about making choices all the time, and the very act of making a choice is the distilling down…

— Mike Leigh

The primary mode of experiencing images is non-verbal... but once it's brought out into the light of the day, what's understood by the subconscious…

— John Paul Caponigro

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

— James Taylor

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the…

— Gerhard Richter

You set your reality and carefully construct it so that it has a certain feeling, an energy. That's the vital, visceral thing about making…

— Mark Alan Stamaty

“Art is a true aesthetic synthesis , "a priori" of feeling and image in the intuition, as to which it may be repeated that…

— Benedetto Croce

A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed the greater…

— Gerhard Richter

I think everybody starts out by seeing a few works of art and wanting to do something like them. You want to understand what…

— Gerhard Richter

My pictures are never pre-visualized or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things at the time and place of…

— Wynn Bullock

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.

— Bell Hooks

The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Every time we do anything artistic, the way it's perceived is always going to be different from the way that we had intended it…

— Simon Helberg