Art Quote by Francis Bacon

Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and is niggardly…

— Henry David Thoreau

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

— Albert Camus

Necessity is stronger far than art.

— Aeschylus

Art is stronger than Nature

— Titian

Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own…

— Ben Shahn

Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

— Leo Tolstoy

There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write…

— Matthew Specktor

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

— Thomas Merton

Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.”

— Thomas Merton

I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the…

— Wadada Leo Smith