Art Quote by Kenneth Clark

“[Medieval] Art was not just a static element in society, or even one which interacted with the various social groups. It was not simply…

— Conrad Rudolph

All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval magicians made…

— William Butler Yeats

When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally…

— Richard Wagner

From the very beginning, art meant something very important to the people who made it. It was a correspondence of the emotions to what…

— Milton Resnick

Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.

— Ben Shahn

Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem…

— Samuel R. Delany

The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the symbols by…

— Kenneth Clark

“As symbol, or as the structuring of symbols, art can render intelligible -- or at least visible, at least discussible -- those wilderness regions…

— Annie Dillard

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art…

— Walter Pater

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of…

— Stephen King

Art is about forgetting all these feelings, good and bad, and trying to understand what acts will last longer, which symbols will remain in…

— Maurizio Cattelan

Art could be said to be a symbol of the universe, being linked with that absolute spiritual truth which is hidden from us in…

— Andrei Tarkovsky