Alexander Pope

“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”

Steven Pinker

“Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.”

James Schuyler

“To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.”

Christo

“The work of art is a scream of freedom.”

Lionel Trilling

“What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.”

Abraham Lincoln

“The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.”

Paul Valery

“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.”

Amy Lowell

“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”

George Santayana

“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”

M. C. Escher

“Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?”

Leo Tolstoy

“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”