Abstraction Quote by Kenneth Clark

“ Paine was a grand fellow — high—with the most splendid sense of justice. But he was a reasoner — not warm — not…

— Walt Whitman

“Art is the outward integration inspired by the artist's inner disintegration.”

— Clive James

The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as…

— Socrates

“Remember, art is an extension of self. …. The unique distinction of being created in the image of God is that what we create…

— Erwin Raphael McManus

“the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms…

— Joseph Conrad

Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving…

— Rachel Kushner

I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in their fusion…

— Douglas Portway

One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.

— Gloria Steinem

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

“One thing, however, did become clear to him—why so many perfect works of art did not please him at all, why they were almost…

— Hermann Hesse

“The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of…

— Adorno, Theodor W

“Art was a union of the father and mother worlds, of mind and blood. It might start in utter sensuality and lead to total…

— Hermann Hesse