Art Quote by Jacques Maritain

The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the…

— Paul Valery

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.

— Anonymous

But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further dimension of…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

— Anonymous

“Art is not an object, but a way of looking at an object.”

— Elaine Equi

The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

— Henri Matisse

The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance

— Aristotle

A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone... but…

— Hans Arp

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

— Brian Eno

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

— Robert Delaunay