Art Quote by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

“Art itself my be defined as a single-minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe.”

— Joseph Conrad

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of…

— Stephen King

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

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness... meaning at-oneness, the state of being at one with the object.

— D. H. Lawrence

. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.

— Robert Adams

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision of reality,…

— John F. Kennedy

Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the…

— Alex Grey

Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.

— Meher Baba

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.…

— Ansel Adams

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

— Ayn Rand

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

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way…

— Susan Sontag