Art Quote by Robert Anton Wilson

An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that…

— Anonymous

Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so.…

— Rollo May

By means of the iconic, artists express their view of reality and show their understanding of the structure of reality. They see what they…

— Hans Rookmaaker

It's not a science when you are judging art, but we'd be remiss to say you can't look at something and say, 'This is…

— Matthew McConaughey

Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.

— Henry James

An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his…

— Anton Chekhov

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

— Samuel Johnson

“The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only when the patterns of our vision are…

— Siri Hustvedt

But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the…

— Dominique de Menil

If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but…

— Edgar Allan Poe

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only…

— Alberto Giacometti

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