Art Quote by Joshua Reynolds

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

— Robert Hughes

The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the…

— Joshua Reynolds

The underlying purpose of all art is to create patterns of imagery which somehow convey a sense of life set in a framework of…

— Christopher Booker

Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.

— Thomas Merton

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.

— John Stuart Mill

The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment!

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of…

— Ali Smith

Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All art is an imitation of nature.

— Seneca the Elder

Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself.

— Eric Drooker

The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their…

— Joseph Conrad