Art Quote by John Gardner

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

— Alfred North Whitehead

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us…

— Robert McKee

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

— Anton Chekhov

Art that arises out of the inner landscape, and is connected to our lived experience, illuminates the darkness and heals the soul.

— Daria Halprin

I want to know art.

— Kellie Martin

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

— Tracey Emin

Children, like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way...Or now and then…

— Eudora Welty

What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's…

— Shawn Colvin

When I've heard a piece of music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something.

— Kate Bush

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

— William Faulkner

Art, like Nature, has her monsters

— Oscar Wilde

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

— Michael Leunig