Art Quote by Jerry Saltz

Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half the work;…

— Vik Muniz

“Art is not an object, but a way of looking at an object.”

— Elaine Equi

“The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only when the patterns of our vision are…

— Siri Hustvedt

When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about.

— Don Ed Hardy

Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little…

— William Hazlitt

“One way to look at a painting—and I use that word as shorthand for visual art in general—is to notice as you take its…

— David Salle

“Art actually happens somewhere in the space between clarity and ambiguity, concept and intuition, thought and feeling.”

— Bert Dodson

In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know.

— Lawrence Weiner

Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.

— Sarah Schulman

“Just as that puzzled savage who has picked up - a strange cast-up from the ocean? - something unearthed from the sands? - or…

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental…

— Yasumasa Morimura

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the…

— Gerhard Richter