Art Quote by Susanne Katherina Langer

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

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world…

— Lady Bird Johnson

“Art is a concretization of metaphysics. Art brings man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allows him to grasp them directly,…

— Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental…

— Yasumasa Morimura

The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.

— Katherine Sophie Dreier

The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized, forgotten, invisible…

— Yasumasa Morimura

“Art is just another way to describe and classify reality – its mystical aspects merely a function of ignorance.”

— Neal Asher

I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.

— Kehinde Wiley

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision of reality,…

— John F. Kennedy

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world,

— Dana Gioia

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

— Chinua Achebe