Able Quote by Martin Buber

“It is a discovery, a life and a sensibility of its own that is created through the working...A piece of work is the embodiment…

— Barbara Bolt

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

— Martin Puryear

What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and…

— Medardo Rosso

“Emphasizing the body as art, these artists amplified the role of process over product and shifted from representation objects to presentational modes of action.”

— Kristine Stiles

An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he…

— Arnold Schoenberg

A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.

— Hans Hofmann

When you make work, the concept is the basis for it; all choices of aesthetics or mediums come later.

— Doug Aitken

One reason for making and exhibiting a work is to induce a reaction or change in the viewer.... In this sense, the work as…

— Adrian Piper

What art makes us see, and therefore gives to us in the form of 'seeing', 'perceiving' and 'feeling' (which is not the form of…

— Louis Althusser

Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.

— D. Todd Christofferson

Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted...

— Sigfried Giedion

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

— Wassily Kandinsky