Art Quote by David Shields

I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary.…

— Rita Mae Brown

It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.

— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

— Randall Jarrell

There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write…

— Matthew Specktor

Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something else: a…

— Chris Kraus

If you're a writer, you've chosen art as a way of life. You must accept that some will like your work and others will…

— Mark Rubinstein

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

I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope.

— Nick Hornby

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will…

— Lisa Mangum

I think it's what art should do: make you feel less alone - either in the quest for truth or in dealing with any…

— Brendan Gleeson

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

“Art is a conversation we are all invited to and are all worthy to participate in. Yes, great works can be intimidating, but no…

— Rachel Hartman