Art Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

— Renzo Piano

Art is an indecent exposure of the consciousness.

— Herbert Read

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

— Eduard Hanslick

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

— John French Sloan

Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

— Robert Hughes

“I had learned from my own father that it was almost blasphemy to regard the function of art as merely to reproduce some kind…

— Thomas Merton

Art is emotion without desire.

— Muriel Barbery

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

— Hermann Hesse

Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art…

— Simon Pegg