Art Quote by Claude Debussy

Art is there for nourishment, not explication.

— Walter Darby Bannard

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

— Hannah Arendt

“It is often said that great works of art are “inexhaustible”—capable, as Stanley Olson put it, of “endless interpretation. But Lubin, the Charlotte C.…

— Roger Kimball

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

— Niklas Luhmann

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

— Seneca the Younger

Art has always got more and more extreme, and it will continue to get more and more extreme.

— Marco Pirroni

I think art breaks down otherness.

— Dee Rees

Art can contradict Science.

— Austin Osman Spare

Art should not have to be a certain way,

— Willem de Kooning

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

— Paul Cezanne

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my…

— Kiki Smith

“Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art.”

— Susan Sontag