Art Quote by Michael Kimmelman

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

— Meher Baba

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails in surmounting…

— Jerry Saltz

People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a…

— Mstislav Rostropovich

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own…

— Jeff Koons

Art can do the opposite of glamourise the unattainable: it can show us anew the genuine merit of life as we're forced to lead…

— Alain de Botton

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who…

— Darryl Anka

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.…

— Ansel Adams

I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to imagine the…

— Brian Eno

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of…

— Franz Marc

It's not ideal when art is seen as just some passing entertainment quickly thrown out into the market, like a consumer object. You have…

— Christine Leunens

The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive…

— John Ruskin

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.

— Tyler Cowen