Ability Quote by John F. Carlson

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must…

— Paul Cezanne

The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

— Marshall McLuhan

“Art is a concretization of metaphysics. Art brings man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allows him to grasp them directly,…

— Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto

Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with…

— Leo Tolstoy

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his…

— William Morris Hunt

The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.

— Herbert Read

Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all…

— Ben Shahn

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

— Robert Henri

No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Art has the power to influence and to make you react to something that you normally wouldn't concern, worry, or even think about or…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.

— Roy Lichtenstein

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to…

— Leo Tolstoy