Art Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

“Of course it's almost ludicrously difficult to talk about art. And about beauty. Beauty is a perversion--how can you retain your self-respect when you…

— Torgny Lindgren

“Anything approaching an explanation is always derogatory to a work of art.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Sometimes you have to take the whole concept of Art and throw it out on its whore ass.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Among the hardest problems an art theory faces are questions about how to settle art’s meaning through interpretation”

— Cynthia Freeland

“It's ugly, but is it art?”

— Randall Jarrell

“What if I began to believe that the critique isn’t just an unwelcome part of the art-making process but might actually make the art…

— Emily P. Freeman

“All this talk about what a marvelous future science'll bring us? Art can change things just as much.' She stubbed out her cigarette. 'Maybe…

— Ellen Klages

“Art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“That is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“In art it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The one who says he doesn't understand anything about art, doesn't know himself.”

— Jostein Gaarder