Air Quote by Laurence Overmire

It's not so much that art is difficult to make; it's that the structures and the kind of prejudices that the art world constructs…

— Fab Moretti

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

— Joyce Cary

I've always taken the view that works of art are not just things that we enjoy. They can convey truths about the world more…

— Roger Scruton

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult…

— Anselm Kiefer

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by virtue of…

— Hans Hofmann

What's interesting about making art is that you take everything you know about it and you bring it up to that point, and you…

— Julian Schnabel

Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your work.

— Dianne Reeves

What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form. No matter…

— Sol LeWitt

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life…

— Charles Ives

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

— Man Ray

The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a…

— Audrey Niffenegger

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

— George Santayana