Art Quote by Rudolf Arnheim

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

— Lionel Trilling

“Art is just another way to describe and classify reality – its mystical aspects merely a function of ignorance.”

— Neal Asher

“Valuable elements may be easier to experience in art and in anticipation than in reality. The anticipatory and artistic imaginations omit and compress, they…

— Alain de Botton

“As a matter of fact, no one is more tiresome than the person who can understand only realism in art. It shows a rather…

— Aaron Copland

“...indeed it is very true that, just as the finest air in the world is vulgarized beyond all bearing once the public has taken…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

— John Walford

“Virtual reality is the willing suspension of disbelief,”

— Jodi Picoult

“A person only experiences the fathomlessly beautiful and mysterious particulars that constitute reality by giving up the distorting spectacles of our egotistical appetites and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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

“The obsession with correct political belief and expression in art is stultifying the genre as it is necessarily exclusive. We are losing our voice…

— Scott M. Roberts

“do not let your life become a compelling illusion of reality that feels like it”

— F.J. Nanic