Artwork Quote by Camille Paglia

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

— Roger Scruton

An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.

— Robert Longo

Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so.…

— Rollo May

I think if art has one underlying value, it's that.

— Tavares Strachan

Any artwork is part of something larger, grander and, you know, the situation that it's in is very important.

— Robert Barry

“For an important intellectual product to be immediately weighty, a deep relationship or concordance has to exist between the life of its creator and…

— Thomas Mann

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

— Agnes Martin

Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers…

— Robert Anton Wilson

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

— Edward Albee

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

— Frederick Sommer

I'm not a political artist in any way, but if an idea takes me somewhere or something is emotionally impactful, I find a way…

— Idris Khan

There's danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art.

— Tavi Gevinson