Analysis Quote by Jacques Bertin

For photography to be an art involves reformulating notions of art, rejecting both material and formal purism and also the separation of art from…

— Peter Wollen

Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and…

— Egon Friedell

Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of…

— Jessica Helfand

Art is about the dynamics of the human experience.

— Danny Glover

Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but…

— Walter Darby Bannard

What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority

— Mu Xin

Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes art into…

— Susan Sontag

Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to…

— Robert Henri

The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

— Aristotle

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

— Susan Sontag

Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry…

— Susan Sontag