Art Quote by Josiah Wedgwood

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense.

— Josiah Wedgwood

“useful, or believe to be beautiful." Thus said the godfather of the Arts & Crafts movement, William Morris. Anyone who has ever spent time…

— Dan Saffer

Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture…

— Henri Matisse

In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into…

— Alberto Manguel

Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Can works be made which are not 'of art'?

— Marcel Duchamp

Art is precisely that condition which pertains when, after all analysis and reduction to parts has taken place, there remains a 'quality' which is…

— Douglas Portway

We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment.

— Helene Grimaud

Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality.

— Thomas Hoving

“A work of art broken into a million pieces cannot be pieced back together; it must be recreated into another art form so that…

— Danielle Luz Matias

It's not so much that art is difficult to make; it's that the structures and the kind of prejudices that the art world constructs…

— Fab Moretti

“A composition—and every work of art is one—is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection. For there…

— Jostein Gaarder