Art Quote by Howard Carter

I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on…

— David Hockney

The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.

— Thomas Merton

We can begin a discussion of artmaking by noting that from very early (as long ago as 200,000 years), humans have been naturally attracted…

— Ellen Dissanayake

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

— Ansel Adams

“We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. The objects that provoke aesthetic emotion vary with…

— Clive Bell

I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about…

— Janet Echelman

The greatness of art is not in the display of knowledge, or in material accuracy, but in the distinctness with which it conveys the…

— George Inness

It's really amazing to stand in front of a work you haven't seen before and be almost overwhelmed by its beauty and the vision…

— Paul Allen

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at the will…

— Paul Gauguin

We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence.

— Amber Heard

“Paint, for the Impressionists, became a medium whose material properties were being celebrated as opposed to being disguised behind the artifice of a pictorial…

— Will Gompertz

The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call…

— Clive Bell