Art Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.

— Laura Esquivel

Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a…

— Raymond Williams

Selling art is a lot different than making it.

— David Leitch

Writing is a craft not an art.

— William Zinsser

“There’s a difference between the ‘art’ of writing and the ‘craft’ of writing. Art is subjective, its beauty lies in the eyes of the…

— Gerard de Marigny

“Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft. If you want to…

— Ann Patchett

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

— Winston Churchill

It's hard to fathom the psychology of the economics of art. I don't quite understand it, and I don't necessarily want to understand it.

— Philip Taaffe

“A writer is lost when he grows interested in such questions as 'what is art?' and 'what is an artist's duty?”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

— Julia Cameron

The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing.

— Anton Ehrenzweig

Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be…

— Vittorio De Sica