Art Quote by Junot Diaz

Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies…

— Rudolf Arnheim

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from…

— Robert Smithson

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point…

— Brian Ferneyhough

“Art is all the implicit knowledge, mechanisms and processes that are not yet fit with the method and consensus of science.”

— Nader Ibrahim

Art upsets, science reasures.

— Georges Braque

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

— Joseph Conrad

How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

— Jean-Luc Godard

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.

— Toyo Ito

Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“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