Art Quote by James Joyce

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

— Milan Kundera

“The mystery of esthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the god of the creation, remains within or behind or…

— James Joyce

“The esthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of esthetic, like that of…

— James Joyce

“Art is a concretization of metaphysics. Art brings man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allows him to grasp them directly,…

— Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto

“Intelligent and insightful at the same time, this is one of the earliest human expressions of art.”

— Rujuta Diwekar

“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

“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.”

— Theodore Dreiser

“After all, what is art if not a true image and a criterion for the perfection of the human soul?”

— Dörthe Binkert

The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician,…

— Robert Irwin

“Art actually happens somewhere in the space between clarity and ambiguity, concept and intuition, thought and feeling.”

— Bert Dodson

“The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity.”

— Ralph Ellison

“Art has something to do with beauty. The act of creating beauty pulls the portion of your soul to the surface that is true…

— Timothy Simpson