The arts stop society going rotten and mad.

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

— Aeschylus

I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

— Aaron Rose

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

— Erich Fromm

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

— Ray Bradbury

“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists…

— Justina Chen Headley

“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it…

— Taf Teh

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

— Adolf Loos

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

— Herbert Spencer

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are…

— Robert Aris Willmott

I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And…

— G-Dragon

“The only thing--I tell you this straight from the heart--that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can't have any proper social intercourse with…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.

— Pablo Picasso