Art Quote by William Osler

The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It…

— Thomas Mann

Art is difficult.

— Scott Thompson

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into…

— Robert Henri

Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because…

— Edward T. Hall

Art is one of man's few serious activities.

— Austin O'Malley

If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their own thoughts,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The problem is, of course, that art typically requires an audience, which loops us right back to the problem of observing actions and losing…

— Maggie Nelson

Art demands constant observation.

— Vincent Van Gogh

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

— Andre Malraux

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

— John Barth

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.

— Donald Barthelme