Art Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is…

— Lin Yutang

Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in…

— Richard Serra

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some…

— Ai Weiwei

The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist.

— August Kleinzahler

Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical good for…

— Michael Gungor

I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.

— Amy Ray

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

— Joanna Russ

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

— Laura Riding

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's…

— Leo Tolstoy

I think of art as a glue, a cultural and social glue. It's one of the means that has served to show us the…

— Eric Fischl

Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

— Vincent Price

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something…

— David Rockefeller