Art Quote by Rudolf Arnheim

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

— Jerzy Kosinski

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

— Francis Picabia

Necessity is stronger far than art.

— Aeschylus

An artist must not feel under any constraint.

— Henri Matisse

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

— Henry James

“The mystery of esthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the god of the creation, remains within or behind or…

— James Joyce

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter...

— Henri Matisse

Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.

— Mencius

The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the…

— Paul Valery

Art is purposiveness without purpose.

— Anonymous

Rules serve no purpose; they can only do harm. Not only must the artist's mind be clear, it must also be free. His fancy…

— Federico Zuccari