Art Quote by Thom Gunn

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

— Alberto Giacometti

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

— Peter Webber

I think that one of the most important things that art can do is give you a reason to look at something, almost give…

— Trevor Paglen

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

— Ali Smith

It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

— Oscar Wilde

I can't believe that 100% of the people who stand in art galleries looking at art are thinking, 'Well, here I am, looking at…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at the moment…

— Emmet Gowin

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

— Marcel Proust

I look at art all the time. I go to the museums and galleries every week. That really is like food for me.

— Tina Barney

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Art is often defined as a famous masterpiece in a gallery, and we are meant to visit the work and view it to appreciate…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

— Marcel Duchamp