Art Quote by Terry Tempest Williams

I say we don't need art in nature, because it's so perfect without us. We need it in the cities. But the cities have…

— Marina Abramovic

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some…

— Ai Weiwei

I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at…

— Martin Firrell

What a society deems important is enshrined in its art

— Harry S. Broudy

It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved…

— Baltasar Gracián

Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't…

— Ai Weiwei

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

— Baltasar Gracian

When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden…

— Mark Rothko

what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.

— Elizabeth Janeway

We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective…

— Peter London

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals,…

— Michel Foucault