Art Quote by David Foster Wallace

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.

— David Foster Wallace

“Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world,…

— Henry James

“Read as little as possible in the way of aesthetics and criticism - it will either be partisan views, fossilized and made meaningless in…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

“Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.”

— Pierre Bayard

“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.”

— Anonymous

“Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search…

— Barbra Streisand

“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

“If an artist can occupy the void of artistry while simultaneously parodying its iconography, they can have their metaphorical cake and cannibalise its crumbs…

— Stewart Stafford

“We have truth in order not to die of art. ”

— Steve Aylett