Art Quote by Barbra Streisand

“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.”

— Keith Haring

“The problem is, of course, that art typically requires an audience, which loops us right back to the problem of observing actions and losing…

— Maggie Nelson

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as…

— George Santayana

“it is widely believed that the purpose of art is to challenge, to question, to transgress, never to celebrate, to harmonise, to console, to…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“For me, art is the desire to preserve the intangible feeling of such a moment, hidden in all the littlest details, and then to…

— Rachel Hartman

“In other words, art is a realm entirely separated from the interests of real life-a refuge for detached and gifted souls from sordid political…

— DeWitt Henry Parker

“Art is just another way to describe and classify reality – its mystical aspects merely a function of ignorance.”

— Neal Asher

“Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of…

— Max Beckmann

“Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a rubbish-heap limned…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“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

“When art is not only a matter of inspiring colors and techniques but a permanent questioning of life.”

— Latino Professional Network

“Genuine art . . . does not have as its object a mere transitory game. Its serious purpose is not merely to translate the…

— Friedrich Schiller