Art Quote by Kilroy J. Oldster

Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.

— Millard Sheets

“Art gives those unexpressed parts of ourselves permission to be felt and spoken.”

— Jaeda DeWalt

“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“We place too much of ourselves inside art - so we become part of it and never feel quiet again for the people, we…

— Laura Chouette

“It must be remembered that no art lives by nature, only by acts of voluntary attention on the part of human individuals. When these…

— C.S. Lewis

“And health in art - what is that? It has nothing to do with a sane criticism of life. There is more health in…

— Oscar Wilde

“Art is, in its purity, an aesthetic means of expression in a time of rising neglect.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.

— Raphael Soyer

“It is perhaps, its ability to penetrate the multidimensional layers of the human condition at all, that makes poetry and art so valuable in…

— Atalina Wright

“For me, art is the desire to preserve the intangible feeling of such a moment, hidden in all the littlest details, and then to…

— Rachel Hartman

“The problem is, of course, that art typically requires an audience, which loops us right back to the problem of observing actions and losing…

— Maggie Nelson

“The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity.”

— Ralph Ellison