Art Quote by Eric Drooker

Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.

— Millard Sheets

“Wonderful art can spring from misery,I'm the last person to deny that.I'd go even further:the best works of art of all time are probably…

— Esther Verhoef

“This is one of the great human mysteries: why do works of art about bad things such as loss and deprivation make us feel…

— Robert Pinsky

After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of…

— Albert Camus

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

— Tucker Max

Art is a kind of illness.

— Giacomo Puccini

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Art is the sex of the imagination.

— George Jean Nathan

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

— George Santayana

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

— Randall Jarrell

We have to put aside the customary historical reading of works of art in order to invite art to respond to certain quite specific…

— Alain de Botton

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because…

— David Hockney