Art Quote by John Wain

It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else remain forever…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine…

— Charlotte Saunders Cushman

“Artists create holes and openings in the universe. They sidestep the conventional, conditional, predictable and habitual, and they illuminate and connect different worlds. They’re…

— Mary Button Durell

“The individual artist is a medium for making representational and deeply meaningful symbols of the community’s collective consciousness, whether they are symbols of the…

— Inga Muscio

“Visual and performing artists produce art that lives in the present world. The art of the writer exists in another dimension. Through strings of…

— Mindie Burgoyne

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not…

— Lawrence Durrell

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great…

— Joseph Campbell

When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.

— Alex Grey

Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to use it:…

— Patricia A. McKillip

The function of artists is "the mythologization of the world."

— Joseph Campbell