Admiration Quote by Henry Moore

Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights…

— Pauli Murray

A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half the work;…

— Vik Muniz

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has…

— Anonymous

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

— Clive Bell

All of the good things that surround art - you have to embrace the idea that it could be a complete disaster. I think…

— Joe Satriani

Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimacy. All art draws its origin from an exceptional fault, each…

— Maurice Blanchot

Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression…

— Cornel West

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

— Philip Schultz

Art can make chaos seductive.

— Mason Cooley

I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come…

— Ben Folds

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

— Saul Bellow