Art Quote by Gregory Crewdson

I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.

— George Saunders

Every picture's painted differently, every one has got a vision in their mind. That fills the heart with answers, and the missing piece that…

— Terri Clark

In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form...…

— Fred Ritchin

Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing…

— Gaston Bachelard

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole...

— Alain de Botton

“Making art depends upon noticing things — things about yourself, your methods, your subject matter. Sooner or later, for instance, every visual artist notices…

— David Bayles

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

— Paul Klee

The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and technical means…

— Hans Hofmann

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that…

— William H. Hunt

Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize…

— Christo

“The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only when the patterns of our vision are…

— Siri Hustvedt

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why…

— Guy Davenport