Art Quote by William Cowper

A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.

— Rene Magritte

“I have enormous respect for the reader. They are able to take symbols from a page that an author has invented, and turn them…

— Lynette Willows

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of…

— Robert Wilson

“I wish that, the way secret manuscripts ought to, the thing arrived on our laps bound in Moroccan leather, dusty and smelling of Muscilin…

— Derek Grzelewski

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

— Paul Gauguin

Past art is subject to change.

— T. S. Eliot

Great art suspends the reverted eye, the lamented past, the anticipated future: we enter with it into the timeless present; we are with God…

— Ken Wilber

I want to suggest to you that the day of the artists has come. That there are things about symbols and the genuine indirectness…

— Graham Cray

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

— Paul Gauguin

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

— Jasper Johns

“In any first-class work of art, you can find passages that in themselves are extremely boring, but try to cut them out, as they…

— W.H. Auden