Adults Quote by Richard Schmid

“Great art comes from passion, from a need to expose human spirit in the face of mortality, the small cruelties and heroisms that make…

— Deb Margolis

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great…

— John Ruskin

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

— John Ruskin

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the…

— John Ruskin

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

— Oscar Wilde

All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence…

— Erich Fromm

Good art is born from knowing yourself deeply: Your art cannot hide how much you have discovered about yourself.

— Zhang Xiaogang

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

“Art is central to all our lives, not just the better-off and educated. . . I know that from my own story, and from…

— Jeanette Winterson

The only way a work of art can become great is for one to acknowledge that it doesn't belong to anybody. The greatness is…

— Paul Caponigro

The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.

— Romare Bearden

True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.

— Michelangelo