14,373 Quotes About Art

As a re-creation of reality, a work of art has to be representational; its freedom of stylization is limited by the requirement of intelligibility; if it does not present an intelligible subject, it ceases to be art.

a dream is a art that ur brain makes to entertain itself while u are asleep.

Art must take reality by surprise.

The essence of the motif is the mirror of water, whose appearance alters at every moment.

Beauty and desire to possess have driven men mad for centuries.

Her art spoke of the unseen, untouched and unreached, yet felt as beautiful as I could imagine.

The expressions of those moving about a picture gallery show ill-concealed disappointment that they only find pictures there.

The philosophical study of beauty, art, and the splendor of nature nurtures a person’s fertile mind by exposing a person to the puzzling world of the beautiful, elegant, ugly, and grotesque. Human beings ability to experience sublime pleasure emanates from a variety of sensory experiences and a person’s ability to make discriminatory observations and judgment in taste and sentiment.

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.