Art Quote by Kenneth Clark

As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.

— Andre Malraux

“An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.”

— Darrell Case

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

— Jackson Pollock

An illustrator in my own mind - and this is not a truth of any kind - is someone who so falls in love…

— Maurice Sendak

Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits…

— George Saunders

The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his…

— Marshall McLuhan

“And art has come to be a spectator of itself, the way it reacts, what newspapers write about it; the artist is a performer.…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

The viewer brings something individual to the experience of any artwork.

— Olafur Eliasson

The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it…

— Pierre Bonnard

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

— Anish Kapoor

“Visual and performing artists produce art that lives in the present world. The art of the writer exists in another dimension. Through strings of…

— Mindie Burgoyne

The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends…

— Paul Strand