Art Quote by E. L. Doctorow

I believe that any form of art is a species of exploration and transgression. ... Art by its nature is a transgressive act, and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.

— August Wilhelm von Schlegel

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel…

— Paul Cezanne

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art…

— Philippe Petit

I think there's very little interesting in art that is not transgressive in some way. And I don't think that's a very revolutionary thing…

— Johann Johannsson

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.

— Susan Sontag

“It is often said that great works of art are “inexhaustible”—capable, as Stanley Olson put it, of “endless interpretation. But Lubin, the Charlotte C.…

— Roger Kimball

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

— Tom Stoppard

The role of art in society is not to resolve conflicts; rather, it is to express these conflicts and antagonisms.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

All art is subversive.

— Pablo Picasso

Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic…

— Amedeo Modigliani