Art Quote by Ralph Ellison

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

— Ralph Ellison

“The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity.”

— Ralph Ellison

Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them…

— William H. Gass

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more…

— Paul Auster

Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art...

— Michael Kimmelman

“Just as Shakespeare filled his works with straightforward storylines, sex, violence, and bawdy jokes for the “groundlings” (the uneducated peasants who stood or sat…

— Benjamin Blech

“Ideally, art would give us the answers that other people don't. This might even be one of the main points of literature: to tell…

— Alain de Botton

I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to…

— Chinua Achebe

To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization…

— George Edward Woodberry

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

— John Bradshaw

It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that…

— Stephen Greenblatt

One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one…

— Ernst Gombrich