A-line-made-by-walking Quote by Sara Baume

“A great work of art, if it accomplishes anything, serves to remind us, or let us say to set us dreaming, of all that…

— Henry Miller

“Art is what gets us beyond what is real. It makes reality more real. It also shortens the distance we gotta travel to see…

— Laura Pritchett

“I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel understood.”

— Deb Caletti

“...it is art's duty to make us aware of realities which are not our own.”

— George Eliot

“I’m convinced that the arts could be something of a higher power.”

— Veronika Carnaby

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

— David Foster Wallace

“I think a lot of art is trying to make someone love you.”

— Keaton Henson

“It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.”

— Oscar Wilde

“He can be so appreciative of all forms of art, but so matter-of-fact and unemotional about it.”

— Dodie Smith

“Maybe art itself was a kind of voodoo, possessing you, giving you supernatural power, letting you see in the dark.”

— Philip Pullman

“That is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it…

— Neil Gaiman