Art Quote by Clive Bell

Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not…

— Anonymous

Art would be useless if the world were perfect.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality.

— Thomas Hoving

All art is quite useless.

— Oscar Wilde

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.

— Walter Darby Bannard

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

— Anonymous

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

— Francis Picabia

An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

— Uta Hagen

There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

“Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree the artist is in…

— Oscar Wilde