Art Quote by Hettie Jones

The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest.

— Dean Mitchell

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

— Sean Penn

“But whatever the nature of your work, there is an art to what you do, and there are people who would be interested in…

— Austin Kleon

You start creating art through the people that are looking at you, trying to route it through their sensibilities or their eyes, and then…

— Rodney Crowell

“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

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

— Donald Woods Winnicott

The goal of art is to inspire people to look inward.

— Chris Sullivan

“Art really does instruct us in how to think, feel, and behave. To be an artist is to have great power. To be the…

— Rod Dreher

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding…

— Wendell Pierce

Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he…

— Leo Tolstoy

As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular,…

— Julia Cameron