Art Quote by William Hazlitt

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

— John French Sloan

“Art is a true aesthetic synthesis , "a priori" of feeling and image in the intuition, as to which it may be repeated that…

— Benedetto Croce

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

— Bert Dodson

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

— Jean Cocteau

“A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts raising questions. It…

— Erik Pevernagie

Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.

— Antoni Tapies

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

— Richard Wagner

The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

— Leo Tolstoy

Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

— Fernando Pessoa

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

Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.

— Jane Smiley

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson