Analysis Quote by Marcel Duchamp

To all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a…

— Marcel Duchamp

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

— Anita Brookner

“It is essential that a work of art should be self-consistent, that an artist should consciously or unconsciously draw a circle beyond which he…

— T.S. Eliot

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites,

— Eli Siegel

The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its…

— Edward Albee

That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective seems to be regarded as an arrogant attitude. But the truer view…

— Tyrone Guthrie

Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

— Henry James

“The idea that any art is achieved 'intuitively' is a dehumanization of the brains, effort, and the traditions of the artist, and a classification…

— Joanna Russ

Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the…

— Alex Grey

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

— Charles Eames

“Don't let things that you cannot do discourage you and hold you back from things that you can do. It would be irrational to…

— JOHN TASKINSOY