Art Quote by Henri Matisse

The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

A work of art is a work of order, and if the artist is to put the stamp of his own mind on his…

— Henry Peach Robinson

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

— Henry James

“Art is a concretization of metaphysics. Art brings man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allows him to grasp them directly,…

— Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto

“The nature of a work of art is to be not a part, nor yet a copy of the real world but a world…

— A.C. Bradley

“For me, art is the desire to preserve the intangible feeling of such a moment, hidden in all the littlest details, and then to…

— Rachel Hartman

“The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful; always it is irrelevant. For, to appreciate a work of…

— Clive Bell

“A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

...Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Art is an attempt to give substance to existence.

— Sondra Horton Fraleigh

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision of reality,…

— John F. Kennedy

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

— Chinua Achebe