Art Quote by Hilton Kramer

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.

— Hilton Kramer

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

— Laura Miller

“What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?”

— Andre Dubus

A work of art doesn't have to be explained,

— Louise Bourgeois

More matter with less art.

— William Shakespeare

[In art], less is more.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word…

— Gustave Flaubert

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

— Edward Albee

Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.

— Albert Einstein

“Among the hardest problems an art theory faces are questions about how to settle art’s meaning through interpretation”

— Cynthia Freeland

The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

— Albert Camus

The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.

— Asher Brown Durand