Art Quote by Walter Benjamin

“Art manifests itself in paradoxical ways. At times it creates and at times it gets created!”

— Avijeet Das

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

— George Santayana

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

— Kathleen Hanna

Art is the reordering of nature - the qualities of space and time - in new perceptual and material form.

— Daniel Bell

Art exists through the act of making. It has to somehow be made manifest to another person. It has to do with what one…

— Philip Taaffe

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way…

— Susan Sontag

Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect,…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and…

— Leon Battista Alberti

There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Art is an attempt to give substance to existence.

— Sondra Horton Fraleigh

In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over…

— Andre Malraux