Art Quote by Brigid Brophy

I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a writer has…

— Kenneth Oppel

The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad…

— Anonymous

There are very few good writers about art, and you either get art-fashion writing with trendy views or you get very traditional writing. Occasionally,…

— Marc Quinn

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

— Randall Jarrell

When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing.

— Scott Avett

Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something else: a…

— Chris Kraus

I've always taken the view that works of art are not just things that we enjoy. They can convey truths about the world more…

— Roger Scruton

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails in surmounting…

— Jerry Saltz

I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold interest. No…

— Poul Anderson

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live…

— Charles Bukowski

Writing plays, I've always felt a little like I'm guessing - less sure of what's good and what's not good. I think that's because…

— Sheila Heti

“Art is made by those who consider themselves to have failed at whatever isn’t art. And of course it is loved as consolation, or…

— Howard Jacobson