Art Quote by Walter Benjamin

All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

— T. S. Eliot

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

— Alfred de Vigny

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

— Mark Rothko

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

— Theodor Adorno

Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.

— Julia Cameron

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with…

— Philip Guston

“All art begins with a groping after form, then attains form, and then emancipates itself from too great insistence upon rigidity of form without,…

— Gustav Kobbé

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

— Oscar Wilde

Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with…

— Alain LeRoy Locke

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

— Scott McCloud

Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try and revive…

— Wassily Kandinsky

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

— Winston Churchill