Art Quote by Barbra Streisand

Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place…

— Franz Kafka

Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.

— Gerhard Richter

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

— Anonymous

Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or…

— Eric Drooker

I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior…

— Jerry Saltz

I think good art does come from a dark place.

— Rick Springfield

Like wax that melts & drips down a candle, Art is the melting pot of the human mind.

— Stephanie Bombita Green

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition. ("Talking In The Dark")”

— Dennis Etchison

Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to…

— Nick Bantock

Art that arises out of the inner landscape, and is connected to our lived experience, illuminates the darkness and heals the soul.

— Daria Halprin

Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

— Robert Hughes