Art Quote by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.

— Regina Spektor

“The process of learning an art can be divided conveniently into two parts: one, the mastery of the theory; the other, the mastery of…

— Erich Fromm

Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

— Camille Pissarro

If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed…

— Walter Gropius

A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and some works…

— Rupert Sheldrake

I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist…

— Gustave Courbet

“A lack of methodology in Upper Palaeolithic art research has led to confusion of priorities.”

— James David Lewis-Williams

There are many prejudices about art, and first among them is that it is a skill and that there are definite rules.

— Wolf Kahn

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

— Alexander Calder

Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the fodder of…

— L. Ron Hubbard

Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimate relation. There is the mistake of Homer, of Shakespeare —…

— Maurice Blanchot