Artwork Quote by Robert Barry

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life…

— Charles Ives

Art has to maintain as large a space for interpretation as possible, and to protect itself from being too narrow.

— Camille Henrot

“The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that…

— David Bayles and Ted Orland

What the work of art looks like isn't too important.

— Sol LeWitt

While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.

— Eric Maisel

It's just that some things more important for this and less important for that, and this is true regardless the style of the art.

— Michael Craig-Martin

Like any artwork, things become richer if you know more about them; but I don't think that's crucial.

— Glenn Ligon

“Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible.”

— Gustave Courbet

I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form

— Lars von Trier

Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is…

— Randall Jarrell

“What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?”

— Andre Dubus

Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract…

— Robert Genn