Art Quote by Henri Matisse

Creating art or something beautiful makes you a more full filled person than they can ever be because theyre caught up in what they…

— Zoheb

When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

— David Cronenberg

...start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made...Art evolves. So…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves?…

— Patti Smith

I began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to tell some of the story…

— Thomas Kinkade

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

— Tristan Tzara

My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to those who…

— Edgar Degas

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

— Ernst Haas

“Looking at and 'appreciating' art has been understood as an instrument (or at best a result) of upward mobility, in which owning art is…

— Lucy R. Lippard

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

— Patrick Kavanagh

A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer,…

— Sol LeWitt

“As long as art is understood and valued as an “absolute” activity, it will be a separate, elitist one. Elites presuppose masses. So far…

— Susan Sontag