Alleviate Quote by David Hockney

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because…

— David Hockney

I truly believe that art can be an agent of change and has been, throughout history, a tool to enlighten the individual and society.

— Lucien Bourjeily

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it…

— Robert Redford

I do believe that painting can change the world.

— David Hockney

As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.

— Yareli Arizmendi

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's…

— Leo Tolstoy

Art is about changing what we see in our everyday lives and representing it in such a way that it gives us hope.

— Kehinde Wiley

Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on their lives, then I…

— JR

I think art is a healing force, and if we give in to the joy that can be found in art, then we are…

— Ntozake Shange

My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.…

— Ansel Adams

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us…

— Oscar Wilde