Art Quote by Dorothy Sayers

“We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Art is an evolutionary act. The shape of art and its role in society is constantly changing. At no point is art static. There…

— Raymond Salvatore Harmon

“In art as in experience, everyday life may be with us at the start but remains fugitive to the very end.”

— Joseph Leo Koerner

“Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives, but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully and honestly.”

— Jan Zwicky

“Art always reaches its peak where it becomes the life interest of a people.”

— Stefan Zweig

“That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.”

— C.S. Lewis

“The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity.”

— Ralph Ellison

“When art is not only a matter of inspiring colors and techniques but a permanent questioning of life.”

— Latino Professional Network

“I am convinced that fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only…

— George Bernard Shaw

“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

“There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.”

— Pat Conroy

“After all, our main business in art, as in life, is to strive. Honest effort meets with its own reward, even where it does…

— Aubertine Woodward Moore