Art Quote by Josh Tillman

Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry…

— Susan Sontag

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

— Oscar Wilde

I always think that in some way, art is the best tool we have to prepare for death. It's like a sculpture that you…

— John Cameron Mitchell

“Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry…

— Susan Sontag

Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.

— Ben Shahn

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

— Corita Kent

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

— Anonymous

Thinking is seeing… Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the…

— Honore de Balzac

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make…

— Susan Sontag

“Thinking follows some kind of processes and patterns. It is also about drawing conclusions from your life experience. After some practice, you may discover…

— Shesh Nath Vernwal

“Art can model the more difficult dynamic of transfiguring one’s life, but at some point the dynamic reverses itself: life models, or forces, the…

— Christian Wiman