Art Quote by Muriel Barbery

The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a direct and…

— Henry Moore

Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

— Rachel Kushner

Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life…

— Jamake Highwater

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

— Arthur Erickson

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

— Roger Scruton

“Vital art comes always from a cross between art and life: art being of one sex only, and quite sterile by itself. Such a…

— George Bernard Shaw

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“[...] For the first time ever, images of art have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available, valueless, free. They surround us in the same way…

— John Berger

It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Art is what we do when we're truly alive.

— Seth Godin

Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the…

— Allan Kaprow

Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which weighed on…

— Umberto Boccioni