Art Quote by James David Lewis-Williams

“All art is, indeed, a monotony in external things for the sake of an interior variety, a sacrifice of gross effects to subtle effects,…

— W.B. Yeats

“The point is this. The arts are not the pretty but irrelevant bits around the border of reality. They are the highways into the…

— N.T. Wright

The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the avant-garde, is…

— John Walford

“Art is a true aesthetic synthesis , "a priori" of feeling and image in the intuition, as to which it may be repeated that…

— Benedetto Croce

Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival.

— Terry Tempest Williams

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

— Mu Xin

“Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of…

— Max Beckmann

“People experience art as a transformative or even transcendent experience when it really only reflects back and awakens parts of them that are already…

— Stewart Stafford

“An artist’s job was not to give aesthetic pleasure—designers could do that; it was to step back from the world and attempt to make…

— Will Gompertz

“I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public…

— Glenn Gould

Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it…

— Edgar Alwin Payne

“Art is, in its purity, an aesthetic means of expression in a time of rising neglect.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann