Art Quote by Douglas Adams

I'm already suspicious of anyone who thinks he or she is smart enough to be president. You'd have to have some ego to believe…

— Andy Rooney

They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a…

— William S. Burroughs

“Q: Do you feel concerned that after all this work, people won't treat [Starship Titanic] with the gravity of, say, a movie or a…

— Douglas Adams

I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about his art. And I'm not writing for the artist. I'm writing for…

— Jerry Saltz

The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.

— Alain de Botton

The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art's sake than a man on a sinking…

— Upton Sinclair

“Art has to be a kind of confession. I don’t mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it…

— James Baldwin

To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks of art.…

— Cate Marvin

“It should also be remembered that art created to change minds often actually does more to bolster the spirit of those already in agreement…

— Steve Turner

Great art can only be created out of love.

— James A. Baldwin

I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people who paid…

— Roxane Gay

Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and…

— Adrienne Rich