Accounts Quote by Robert Smithson

I believe in the energy of art, and through the use of that energy, the artist's ability to transform his or her life, and…

— Audrey Flack

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we…

— Paulo Coelho

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute…

— Henry James

My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression… I feel an affinity for art when it was made a form of…

— Magdalena Abakanowicz

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its…

— Anonymous

Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies…

— Rudolf Arnheim

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

— Takeshi Kitano

Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.

— Salvador de Madariaga

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.

— Daniel Bell

My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

— Alexander Calder

There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and the exact…

— Georges Vantongerloo

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the Universe. Painting for me is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious…

— Richard Pousette-Dart