Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art…

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

— Madeleine L'Engle

None of the established museums were treating cartoons seriously. It was considered a lesser art or no art at all, just a way to…

— Mort Walker

“While Jesus transcends culture, culture does not change God's word.”

— Steve Prokopchak

“Religious faith always transcends culture, and is the integrating principle and power of man's cultural striving.”

— Henry R. Van Til

“The Bible's message must not be subjected to cultural imperialism. Its message transcends the culture in which it originated, but the form in which…

— John H. Walton

Christianity, sharing the Christian faith, in common, gives you instant friendship, and that is the remarkable thing, because it transcends culture.

— John Lennox

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

— Anonymous

“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases…

— Seth Godin

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed…

— Tom Wolfe

“Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives, but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully and honestly.”

— Jan Zwicky

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

— Flannery O'Connor

“For some death is an art, for others it is merely an inevitability.”

— Sadie S. Forsythe

I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do…

— Aleksandar Hemon

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

— Roger Scruton