Art Quote by GK Chesterton

Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.

— Oscar Wilde

Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand…

— Joanna Scott

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

— Oscar Wilde

“The feelings excited by improper art are kinetic, desire or loathing. Desire urges us to posses, to go to something; loathing urges us to…

— James Joyce

I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the more violent…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.

— Nicholas Serota

It is in its pure form that an art hits hard.

— Robert Bresson

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we…

— Andrea Bocelli

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity…

— Eric Gill

It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.

— Eli Broad

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.

— Robert Motherwell