Art Quote by Edith Wharton

We all have our insecurity and that's normal. And you have to learn to accept that about being an artistic person or aspiring to…

— Annette Bening

“Fear of aesthetics is the first sign of powerlessness”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock.”

— Milan Kundera

“Reading these stories, it's tempting to think that the arts to be learned are those of tracking, hunting, navigating, skills of survival and escape.…

— Rebecca Solnit

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

— Clive Bell

As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear

— Damien Hirst

“Continuously feeling superior is a characteristic of immaturity.”

— Eraldo Banovac

I don't know the history of art, but I got over intimidation from the art world when I realized that I was allowed to…

— Marc Jacobs

“Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed." -Unknown”

— Caddy Rowland

I think that the older I get and the more comfortable I get with myself, the more I realize that art is about relinquishing…

— K. D. Lang

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think...…

— Willem de Kooning

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.

— Robert Motherwell