Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world…

Art is as useful as bread.

— Azar Nafisi

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. —Pablo Picasso”

— Edward B. Burger

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

— Pablo Picasso

I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut…

— Queen Latifah

“The only two useful art forms are religion and stories.”

— Stephen King

You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art.

— Toni Morrison

Most arts require long study and application, but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.

— Lord Chesterfield

“As, in useful art, so far as it is useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature, so as to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

— Rebecca West

Masonry is an art, useful and extensive, which comprehends within its circle every branch of useful knowledge and learning, and stamps an indelible mark…

— Preston

I like making art that's useful to people who have a harder road. Art is a tool to get through it; it's a tool…

— John Cameron Mitchell

I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or…

— John Baldessari

I'm creating art that can be healing. Art that can make you feel like you're not alone, like you're not an outsider. Art that…

— Jamila Woods

When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I…

— Bill Viola

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

— Walter Darby Bannard