Art Quote by Chaim Potok

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

— Simone de Beauvoir

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas…

— Yann Martel

“Art does not deny that evil is real, but it places evil in a context that implies an affirmation; the structure of the picture,…

— Robert Adams

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared…

— Muriel Rukeyser

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

— Seth MacFarlane

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he…

— Rebecca West

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

— Charles Baudelaire

The question of good and evil will always be one of philosophy's most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself...If evil…

— Anonymous

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

— Aldous Huxley

All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making…

— John Boorman

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

— Charles Baudelaire

Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.

— Alain de Botton