Art Quote by Azar Nafisi

In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that…

— Azar Nafisi

Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

— Azar Nafisi

“Madame de Pompadour excelled at an art which the majority of human beings thoroughly despise because it is unprofitable and ephemeral: the art of…

— Nancy Mitford

“Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime”

— Theodor Adorno

“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-control concealing from the world's eyes…

— Thomas Mann

“The most glorious works of art, the ones that bring the purest joy – perhaps they need not be touched or known, but seen…

— Michelle Cuevas

“that incongruity of common and elegant in which the habitually vulgar think they see the revelation of an eccentric existence, of the perturbations of…

— Gustave Flaubert

“...the special quality of works of Art being to produce the momentary conviction that anything else whatever could not possibly be so good.”

— M.P. Shiel

“In this image (watching sensual murder through a peephole) Lorrain embodies the criminal delight of decadent art. The watcher who records the crimes (both…

— Jennifer Birkett

“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.”

— Joseph Conrad

“Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one's vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not counterbalanced by…

— Amélie Nothomb