Art Quote by Herbert Bayer

“The most distinctive quality of artmaking is the investment of the artist’s own humanity in the finished piece.”

— Ted Orland

...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

— Charles Baudelaire

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Your skill is the artistry you bring to your world, put out awe inspiring work.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so…

— Margaret Oliphant

“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

Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic…

— Amedeo Modigliani

An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation

— Lewis Hyde

“Art (including literature) is the barometer of a culture. It reflects the sum of a society’s deepest philosophical values: not its professed notions and…

— Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world…

— Vivienne Westwood

It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's…

— Ansel Adams

“The measure of a work of art is how much art it has in it, not how much ‘relevance’. Relevant to whom? Relevant to…

— Edward St. Aubyn