Art Quote by Charles Baudelaire

“If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul,…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“It is well known that great art, great music and great literature can emerge out of great pain. This does not lessen the reality…

— Christopher J.H. Wright

“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line...To snatch in a moment of courage,…

— Joseph Conrad

“Art is not just a display of beauty. Art also reflects what is ugly, and it celebrates the grotesque. An artist frequently creates what…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that art has often judged the judges, pleaded revenge…

— John Berger

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

— Toni Morrison

This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a…

— Thomas Ligotti

“It is a grotesque misapprehension which sees in art no more than a craft comprehensible perfectly only to the craftsman: art is a manifestation…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Wonderful art can spring from misery,I'm the last person to deny that.I'd go even further:the best works of art of all time are probably…

— Esther Verhoef

“tragedy is suffering elevated into art, it’s art that helps humans endure—and sometimes even transcend—their suffering. It’s”

— Jean Hegland

It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else remain forever…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and…

— Joseph Conrad