Art Quote by Scott McCloud

By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

— Scott McCloud

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would,…

— Henri Matisse

Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist.

— Randy Sanders

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the…

— Jerome Bruner

“Art is a true aesthetic synthesis , "a priori" of feeling and image in the intuition, as to which it may be repeated that…

— Benedetto Croce

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

— Douglas Portway

The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.

— Steve Jobs

“Pictures tell the story of actual impulse in the artist—or the lack of it.”

— Robert Henri

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

— Henry Rollins

“In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves in…

— Niklas Luhmann

The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and technical means…

— Hans Hofmann

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

— Pablo Picasso