Art Quote by Odilon Redon

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

— Odilon Redon

For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.

— Margaret Mead

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

— Flannery O'Connor

“As a matter of fact, no one is more tiresome than the person who can understand only realism in art. It shows a rather…

— Aaron Copland

“art is a meditation upon external reality rather than a representation of external reality”

— Donald Barthelme

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in…

— Henri Bergson

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

— Pablo Picasso

Art is not truth. Truth conforms to reality. Art invents reality.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand…

— Joanna Scott

The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through…

— Keith Haring

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law…

— Herbert Marcuse