Art Quote by Joshua Reynolds

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and…

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

— Adam Davidson

Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing...…

— Walter J. Phillips

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for…

— Aldous Huxley

It's not ideal when art is seen as just some passing entertainment quickly thrown out into the market, like a consumer object. You have…

— Christine Leunens

The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust…

— Steve Martin

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

— Keith Jarrett

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because…

— Katharine Hepburn

The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized, forgotten, invisible…

— Yasumasa Morimura

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.

— John French Sloan

“It is often said that great works of art are “inexhaustible”—capable, as Stanley Olson put it, of “endless interpretation. But Lubin, the Charlotte C.…

— Roger Kimball