Art Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The problem is, of course, that art typically requires an audience, which loops us right back to the problem of observing actions and losing…

— Maggie Nelson

Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they…

— William Gaddis

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.

— Katherine Paterson

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.

— Mervyn Levy

“Art requires contemplation that focuses attention on the viewer developing a relationship with the work of art, not merely passively receiving a message.”

— Daniel A. Siedell

Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

— E. M. Forster

It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand…

— Joanna Scott

“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

“The work of art always requires us to adapt to it—and in this manner can be distinguished from escapism or shallow entertainment, which instead…

— Ted Gioia