Art Quote by Giorgio Vasari

Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of paper of…

— Henri Matisse

As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly,…

— Charles de Lint

The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity.

— Edgard Varese

From the very beginning, art meant something very important to the people who made it. It was a correspondence of the emotions to what…

— Milton Resnick

It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not in the…

— Antonin Dvorak

You can't really have art without having a sense of community as art is for others to enjoy as well.

— Jaime Zevallos

“Knowing the rules of an art is not the same as having the habit.”

— Mortimer J. Adler

I can't believe that 100% of the people who stand in art galleries looking at art are thinking, 'Well, here I am, looking at…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

— Antonin Artaud

A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The essence of all art is having pleasure giving pleasure.”

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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