Art Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.

— Thomas Hoving

In products of the human mind, simplicity marks the end of a process of refining, while complexity marks a primitive stage. Michelangelo 's definition…

— Eric Hoffer

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

— Louis Dudek

My definition of art is whatever an artist calls art. Us speaking could be an artwork, us sitting in the near-dark in your kitchen…

— Matthew Brannon

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best…

— Seth Godin

Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments -…

— Paul Di Filippo

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Art is an attempt to capture the truths of the world as you see it in a medium you can share with others. It…

— Dan Rather

Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.

— Richard Summerbell

Duchamp's urinal was art once he put it in a gallery. In fact, one working definition of art is anything that is in a…

— Matthew Slotover

Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into…

— Raphael Soyer

With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.

— Thomas Hoving

“As a working definition of art, I lean toward Tolstoy's: "Art is a human activity having for it's purpose the transmission to other of…

— Gene Logsdon

The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did…

— Gloria Steinem