Art Quote by Willa Cather

Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.

— Sara Maitland

Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.

— Ben Shahn

Art is a form of consciousness.

— Susan Sontag

The whole point about vision is that it's very individual, it's very personal, and it has to be confessional. It has to be something…

— Clive Barker

The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at…

— Toni Morrison

“Art actually happens somewhere in the space between clarity and ambiguity, concept and intuition, thought and feeling.”

— Bert Dodson

Art has to maintain as large a space for interpretation as possible, and to protect itself from being too narrow.

— Camille Henrot

“I have always thought that art is not a category, not a realm covering innumerable concepts and derivative phenomena, but that, on the contrary,…

— Boris Pasternak

The detail of my art depends entirely on the project itself. I tend to be a little more detail-oriented with covers than I am…

— Brian Stelfreeze

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

— Anonymous

Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible.

— Diana Athill