Art Quote by Jeanette Lee

“Art does what reality cannot.”

— Jayme K

The only realism in art is of the imagination.

— William Carlos Williams

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

— Anonymous

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

— Henry Moore

Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.

— Sherwood Anderson

Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.

— Walter J. Phillips

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

— George Oppen

Realism in so far as it means Reality to life is always bad art.

— Sherwood Anderson

There exists no more difficult art than living.

— Seneca the Younger

We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.

— Asger Jorn

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

— Hans Hofmann

Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.

— William Blake