Art Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own…

— Jeff Koons

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration,…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives,…

— Rufino Tamayo

Art exists through the act of making. It has to somehow be made manifest to another person. It has to do with what one…

— Philip Taaffe

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as…

— George Santayana

Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art.…

— Nick Bantock

Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have…

— Eugenio Montale

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

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.…

— Ansel Adams

Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must…

— Charles F Kettering

Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception,…

— Marco Tempest

Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It's something you hone all the time and something…

— Mani Ratnam