Artwork Quote by Luc Tuymans

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding…

— Wendell Pierce

I have the belief that a person and his art should have one direction; your work should be a synonym for your person -…

— Zhang Xiaogang

“The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance, not one or the other, but always both at the same…

— Richard Rohr

Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.

— Meher Baba

“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

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness - the work.

— Eduardo Chillida

All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from…

— Robert Henri

“It is not sufficient for artistic expressions to serve as "signposts declaring what it is to be fully human." They should impart a vision…

— Ron Brackin

Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here.

— Paddy Mitchell

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

The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance

— Aristotle

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge