Art Quote by Van Deren Coke

“Art provides us with clues about how to live our lives more fully...about how creating, collecting, and even just appreciating art can make daily…

— Michael Kimmelman

Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.

— Julian Casablancas

Art is a way of life.

— Bryce Dessner

Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

— Lawren Harris

Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it… Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the…

— Emily Carr

Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let…

— Ernst Haas

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are…

— Clement Greenberg

Art is a well-articulated manifestation of an aspect of life. I have been privileged to view much of life through my cameras, making the…

— Dennis Stock

Art brings to life things that can seemingly be dead, and can put a fresh perspective on things that are living. It's so important…

— Mark Foster

Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty-- his escape from the sordid realities of life into a world of…

— Paul Outerbridge

“But the very question of whether photography is or is not an art is essentially a misleading one. Although photography generates works that can…

— Susan Sontag

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy