Art Quote by M. H. Abrams

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

— Raphael Soyer

“Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person knows that…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Human lives are conmposed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which then assumes…

— milan kundera

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

— Tom Hiddleston

We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire…

— Walter Gropius

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

— Julia Cameron

Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would…

— Vincent Van Gogh

The art of your existence is living.

— Ruben Papian

The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite…

— Gyorgy Kepes

“Through creativity, we are seamlessly connected and sustained as we pull back the veil, revealing beneath our differences and distinctive characteristics, human expression and…

— Brian Bowers

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and…

— Joseph Beuys

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

— Salvador Dali