Art Quote by Shannon Alder

“Why do you have to be so damn cryptic?”

— Amanda Hocking

“Now I wonder if each artwork is in fact utterly inaccessible to everybody but the person to whom it is secretly addressed?”

— Sara Baume

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

— Oscar Wilde

“Through art we discover that we are not alone.”

— Arnold Weinstein

“If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . . . for…

— Truman Capote

“Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it.”

— Richard Matturro

“Art is a spirit and soul thing. Anything else is mere desperation.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Art is unpredictable.”

— Joe Papagoda

“What is art, if not an excuse to be adventurous?”

— Nenia Campbell

“Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every meaning that…

— William T. Vollmann

“Anything approaching an explanation is always derogatory to a work of art.”

— Oscar Wilde

“We can only understand what art is through its embeddedness in an artworld.”

— Barbara Bolt