Art Quote by Wassily Kandinsky

If art is to flourish in the twenty-first century, it must renew its moral authority by rededicating itself to life. It must be an…

— Frederick Hart

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

— Madeleine L'Engle

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

— Susan Sontag

It appears to be monumental only because it's art.

— Christo

For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the…

— Robert Motherwell

While knowledge of tools and the love of motif may be in your backpack, and all mountains may be measured by their previous heroes,…

— Robert Genn

I think that what art can do is refresh our sense of justice, wake us up to what we've taken for granted in the…

— Robert Hass

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.…

— Ansel Adams

A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.

— Christopher Ricks

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

— Madeleine L'Engle