Absurd Quote by Zadie Smith

“I like it when art presents a paradigm shift, when it forces me to confront my assumptions, when it asks, "Why this way and…

— Jill Talbot

“Newness” has a sort of mystical draw, even though it's incredibly short-lived and rarely meets expectations”

— David DiSalvo

“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with, we cease to see.”

— Anaïs Nin

“Weird, inexplicable stuff is already happening in life, whereas art should offer resolution.”

— Joni Murphy

“Art makes the familiar strange so that it can be freshly perceived. To do this it presents its material in unexpected, even outlandish ways:…

— Viktor Shklovsky

“One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover.”

— Anonymous

By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.

— Wes Nisker

“Nothing could be less conducive to reaching an art-work than critical remarks:it's always simply a matter of more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Everything cannot…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“When we see things from a different perspective, they either transform into fair features or slip under the cloak of the collective unconscious… overruled…

— Kayla Severson

Logically there is nothing new to say about the New. Or maybe it's just a problem of articulating unfamiliar perceptions.

— David Toop

“That is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity…

— Eric Gill