“Art is something greater and higher than our own skill, knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man’s soul.” — Vincent van Gogh
“The measure of a work of art is how much art it has in it, not how much ‘relevance’. Relevant to whom? Relevant to what? Nothing is more ephemeral than a hot topic.” ― Edward St. Aubyn
“Art is emotion without desire.” ― Muriel Barbery
“art, above all, does not affect the human mind, but his emotions.” ― Andrei Tarkovsky