Art Quote by Anthony Kiedis

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don’t see how art…

— Chinua Achebe

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

— Oscar Wilde

The power of art is as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; it's just where war destroys, art inspires. But in order to inspire,…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us…

— Oscar Wilde

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind,…

— Jeff Koons

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

— Willem de Kooning

“Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are…

— Oscar Wilde

Art and war are opposites, so our goal as an artist is to build and create, not destroy.

— Sergei Polunin

All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making…

— John Boorman

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.

— Andre Maurois

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think...…

— Willem de Kooning