Art Quote by Thomas McEvilley

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life...

— Robert Henri

“An artist is a bloke who can hold two fundamentally opposing views and still function:”

— John le Carré

“The claims of contemporary art cannot be ignored in any vital scheme of life. The art of to-day is that which really belongs to…

— Kakuzō Okakura

All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.

— Rudolf Steiner

Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into their works.…

— Semir Zeki

“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.”

— Ivan Fernandez

We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts…

— Jeffrey Deitch

“Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd, and inaccessible he is, the more he…

— Mircea Eliade

Artists are those people who sit at the intersection between the known and unknown, the rational and irrational, coming to terms with some of…

— Kehinde Wiley

“philosophy of art usually lacks one of two things: either the philosophy or the art”

— Friedrich Schlegel

“The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.”

— Gary Inbinder

“The work of artists and scietists is ultimately the pursuit of truth, but members of both camps understand that truth is its very nature…

— Daniel J. Levitin