Abstract Quote by Robert Genn

A piece of art - this goes for a painting or a sculpture or a book or whatever - really shouldn't have to do…

— Max Kellerman

A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what…

— Eric Fischl

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

— Robert Longo

The viewer brings something individual to the experience of any artwork.

— Olafur Eliasson

All art should have a certain mystery and should make demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing too explicit a title…

— Henry Moore

The value of art is in the observer.

— Agnes Martin

I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So if you have a sense…

— Jeff Koons

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

— Martin Kippenberger

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly…

— J. C. Chandor

A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.

— Alain de Botton

What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

— Robert Breault