Art Quote by Eugene Ionesco

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

— Tom Robbins

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

— Oscar Wilde

All art is quite useless.

— Oscar Wilde

'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you…

— Michael Craig-Martin

Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.

— Seth Godin

Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

— Karl Kraus

“Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree the artist is in…

— Oscar Wilde

Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

— Joseph Beuys

Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them…

— William H. Gass

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

— William Golding

“...there is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

— Robert Rauschenberg