Accepted Quote by Wes Nisker

“Any artist is insulted by the suggestion that art is merely a matter of recording reality, and knows that it is impossible to explain…

— Joan Lindsay

Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing -…

— Henri Matisse

Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand…

— Joanna Scott

For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.

— Margaret Mead

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.

— Salman Rushdie

The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through…

— Keith Haring

Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law…

— Herbert Marcuse

“Art does what reality cannot.”

— Jayme K

“Art is just another way to describe and classify reality – its mystical aspects merely a function of ignorance.”

— Neal Asher

“Artists create holes and openings in the universe. They sidestep the conventional, conditional, predictable and habitual, and they illuminate and connect different worlds. They’re…

— Mary Button Durell

Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead.

— Semir Zeki

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

— Russell Simmons