Art Quote by Adrienne Rich

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

— Stephen Sondheim

Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.

— Sarah Churchwell

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

— Morgan Parker

Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.

— Saul Bellow

“Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to transformations that…

— Jennifer Birkett

I truly believe that art can be an agent of change and has been, throughout history, a tool to enlighten the individual and society.

— Lucien Bourjeily

I don't want to be hubristic about art's possibilities. I don't think that art has a causal relationship to revolution. I do think it's…

— Joshua Clover

I think that what art can do is refresh our sense of justice, wake us up to what we've taken for granted in the…

— Robert Hass

Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in…

— Immortal Technique

I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to…

— Eugene Ionesco

I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind form all…

— Joseph Beuys

“Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.”

— Theodor W. Adorno