Art Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

“Art actually happens somewhere in the space between clarity and ambiguity, concept and intuition, thought and feeling.”

— Bert Dodson

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded…

— Kurt Wagner

I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece function as…

— Laura Mullen

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

— W. H. Auden

I liked that the work itself was something other than simply what you saw It meant you could have an art work which was…

— Joseph Kosuth

It began in images and it ended in symbolism.

— B. W. Powe

The thing represented had to pass through two distorting lenses: the artist's mind, and his medium of expression, before it emerged as a man-made…

— Arthur Koestler

It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing.

— Joe Sacco

Originally, I didn't want to say too much about the art...

— Joel Houston

The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led.

— Paul Park

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

— Sigfried Giedion

“Art was not simply a foregone conclusion, the final link in a causal chain. It was not the inevitable outcome of an evolving ‘aesthetic…

— James David Lewis-Williams