Art Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The artist's transcendence is achieved through success at diagnosing and naming the maladies of the age. Artists tell a different sort of truth than…

— Gregory E. Ganssle David LaRocca

I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what…

— Agnes Martin

A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render... the 'radiance' of all things as an epiphany or showing…

— Joseph Campbell

Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever…

— William Saroyan

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

— Flannery O'Connor

“He believed that any work an artist puts forth which contains the truth as he or she sees it is worthy of consideration,”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“I've had people come up to me with the strangest interpretations of what my lyrics might mean, and I'm like, "You go! I never…

— Serj Tankian

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

— Bruce Nauman

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks…

— Anonymous

The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create…

— Colin Blakemore

A true artist is one who, even after doing a lot, he reminds himself that he hasn't done anything.

— Mahesh Bhatt