Able Quote by Jane Campion

Art gives us the opportunity to have clarity as well as hope that we might be able to survive a situation, or hope that…

— Ntozake Shange

As an artist, it took me some time to understand and appreciate that Oh, there are certain things that are really important. It makes…

— Greta Lee

Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing…

— Ellsworth Kelly

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

— Norman Mailer

Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in…

— Richard Serra

“What’s also missing is a sense of relationship. People suffer in isolation from one another. In a world without purpose, without meaningful values, what…

— Michael E. Gerber

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it.…

— Anais Nin

To achieve something I don't think is a big thing but to maintain and sustain it, is an art. This is something few people…

— Bhuvan Bam

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. Why is this important? Because…

— Steven Pressfield

Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art...

— Michael Kimmelman

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

— Susan Neiman

One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like…

— Adrienne Rich