Abstract Quote by William Kentridge

“We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. The objects that provoke aesthetic emotion vary with…

— Clive Bell

We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never…

— Christo

Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

— Paul Mellon

As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting together a…

— Viola Davis

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

— Eli Broad

“Art is not just a display of beauty. Art also reflects what is ugly, and it celebrates the grotesque. An artist frequently creates what…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything.

— Swami Vivekananda

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for…

— Peter Wright

I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares,…

— Bridget Riley

What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible— significant form. In each, lines and colors…

— Clive Bell

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

— Edgar Degas

The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call…

— Clive Bell