Photo Quotes ArchiveQuotes about Art > General (22 quotes)
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
Edgar Degas
Quote #141
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
Aristotle
Quote #162
"What are we actually doing when we make art? Resolving uncertainty? Giving form to our experiences? Seeking emotional release? Declaring what we believe important? Expressing our belief system?"
Ted Orland
Quote #176
"Perhaps art succeeds precisely because it remains ambiguous enough to allow others with wildly different mental sets to invest themselves in it. Maybe this is why art seems so dissimilar from 'fact'."
Ted Orland
Quote #177
"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection."
Oscar Wilde
Quote #231
"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."
Susan Sontag
Quote #232
"Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools. "
Ken Rockwell
Quote #251
"When it comes to making or experiencing art, words are optional -- but when it comes to interpreting the meaning of that art, words are the universal drug of choice for our species. Call it human nature."
Ted Orland
Quote #262
"As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity--no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may be fired and the ambition and work directed by the advice and example of others. "
Edward Weston
Quote #270
"Only those who attempt the absurd... will achieve the impossible."
M. C. Escher
Quote #283
"Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote #284
"The subject comes first, the medium second."
Richard Prince
Quote #358
"A lot of it’s experimental, spontaneous. It’s about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.
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Richard Prince
Quote #359
"Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask "how," while others of a more curious nature will ask "why." Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information."
Man Ray
Quote #361
"Light glorifies everything. It transforms and ennobles the most commonplace and ordinary subjects. The object is nothing; light is everything.
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Leonard Misonne
Quote #362
"The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep."
Paul Strand
Quote #363
"It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep inner experience, with all of oneself, and that becomes 'art' in time."
Alfred Stieglitz
Quote #436
"...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the effort to develop that vision starts in the more common experience of confusion and pain."
Robert Adams
Quote #576
"...combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important."
Robert Adams
Quote #577
"No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves. "
Robert Adams
Quote #582
"There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love."
Man Ray
Quote #587
"Of course, in order to make art, the frustration of not working has to be greater than the frustration of working."
Jerry Uelsmann
Quote #596 |
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