Art Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with, we cease to see.”

— Anaïs Nin

“What if I began to believe that the critique isn’t just an unwelcome part of the art-making process but might actually make the art…

— Emily P. Freeman

“Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.”

— Paul Klee

“Art actually happens somewhere in the space between clarity and ambiguity, concept and intuition, thought and feeling.”

— Bert Dodson

“Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search…

— Barbra Streisand

“I think serious art is supposed to make us confront things that are difficult in ourselves and in the world.”

— David Foster Wallace

“Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates…

— Kamand Kojouri

“I think that's what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise.”

— Misha Glouberman

“I always thought that if I suffered enough in service of Art, if I laid down my life to please the world, I could…

— Amelia Gray

“Art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.”

— Clive Bell

“Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world,…

— Henry James