Art Quote by Jean Cocteau

Art is emotion without desire.

— Muriel Barbery

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

— Paul Cezanne

Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed.

— Nadia Boulanger

“The Work of Art. When I watch the audience at a concert or the crowd in the picture gallery I ask myself sometimes what…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“All art is immoral… For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is…

— Yosay Briels

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him - may be…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

“Thought and plot are not so important as some would make them out to be. The object of any work of art is the…

— James Joyce

You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many…

— Marina Abramovic

Art is subjective and, as an artiste, if our artistic work is not appreciated by the majority, it hurts.

— Badshah

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

— Louise Bogan

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

— Clive Bell