Art Quote by C. S. Lewis

“The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There is no…

— C.S. Lewis

We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first…

— C. S. Lewis

Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Art always demands of us something new.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I feel like we have to fight for art.

— Jeremy Scott

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

— Uta Hagen

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

— Emma Goldman

How do we fight back? By creating art.

— Terence McKenna

“Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates…

— Kamand Kojouri

When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you’re forfeiting your humanity.

— Woody Allen

Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favor. I wed…

— Rosa Bonheur

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art…

— Philippe Petit