Art Quote by Susan Sontag

Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence, phrasing.

— John Edgar Wideman

In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of…

— Susan Sontag

art is the most general condition of the Past in the present. ... Perhaps no work of art is art. It can only become…

— Susan Sontag

Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, mush less to squeeze more content out of…

— Susan Sontag

It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think…

— Guy Pearce

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

— Russell Sherman

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

— Abbas Kiarostami

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.

— Lana Del Rey

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol…

— Oscar Wilde

A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed the greater…

— Gerhard Richter

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

— Luis Bunuel