“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.”– Khalil Gibran Related Quotes “Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”– Amy Lowell “Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‘the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.’ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‘Artist.’”– Edgar Allan Poe “The art of pleasing is the art of deception.”– Luc de Clapiers