Art Is Merely Quotes
- We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's… — Henry David Thoreau
- Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. — W. Somerset Maugham
- Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with… — Ai Weiwei
- The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long… — Tom Wolfe
- Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression… — Allen Ginsberg