Art Quote by Jerry Saltz

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

— Jerry Saltz

Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and…

— Willa Cather

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

The thing about good art is that it makes you look at things in a new way.

— Amitava Kumar

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

In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable way of…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good…

— Amber Valletta

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's…

— Leo Tolstoy

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

— Yoko Ono

Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste,…

— Alton Tobey

Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better,…

— Seth Godin

“Art should be linked to abstract things - color, line, tone. It is not an instrument to improve social conditions and chase ugliness. Painting…

— Irving Stone