Susan Sontag

“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”

Frank Zappa

“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.”

Gwendolyn Brooks

“Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.”

Andre Maurois

“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.”

Abraham Lincoln

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

Albert Camus

“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”

Leo Tolstoy

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

M. C. Escher

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

George Santayana

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

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.”

Paul Valery

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

Quintilian

“The perfection of art is to conceal art.”