Art Quote by Claes Oldenburg

“Yeah. Art is a lot like sex. It’s intimate and personal. It’s about being laid bare. About pushing boundaries. It’s about making our senses…

— Marie Sexton

“In other words, art is a realm entirely separated from the interests of real life-a refuge for detached and gifted souls from sordid political…

— DeWitt Henry Parker

“A great work of art, if it accomplishes anything, serves to remind us, or let us say to set us dreaming, of all that…

— Henry Miller

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

— Charles Bukowski

“I’m convinced that the arts could be something of a higher power.”

— Veronika Carnaby

“Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives, but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully and honestly.”

— Jan Zwicky

“For art is about desire, is it not, and never its consummation?”

— A. Manette Ansay

“I will contend until I am shot that art as soon as it is brought into contact with politics inevitably sinks to the level…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.”

— Keith Haring

“I always thought that if I suffered enough in service of Art, if I laid down my life to please the world, I could…

— Amelia Gray

“Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates…

— Kamand Kojouri

“The only art I've been ever interested in is the curve of a woman's legs as she lays on the floor gibbering in madness…

— Dennis Liggio