For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates… — John Berger Copy Share Image
All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I think what's really interesting and useful about this question is that ultimately all art is a type of self-portraiture. And so… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own. — Brassai Copy Share Image
Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The saying "the business of art is different than the purpose of art" makes sense, and what are you going to do… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
Our Government is pleased to partner with the Kelowna Visual and Performing Arts Centre Society, located in the heart of British Columbia's… — Shelly Glover Copy Share Image
I am intrigued by the basics of human life, by our vulnerability, our desires, our sexuality - as far as I am… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God's careless splatters — El Greco Copy Share Image
Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
