Art Quote by Friedrich Schleiermacher

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they…

— Christina Stead

“The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into…

— Oscar Wilde

When you celebrate somebody's bad work on the terms that define their good work, how can that artist have anything but contempt for an…

— Greil Marcus

“High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn’t speak language that’s acceptable to people, it relegates…

— Thomas Kinkade

“Nothing could be less conducive to reaching an art-work than critical remarks:it's always simply a matter of more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Everything cannot…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively…

— Theodor Adorno

“Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things aren't all…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“We should realize that if something untrue or immoral is stated in great art, it can be far more devastating than if it is…

— Francis A. Schaeffer

“Good art is becoming hard to find these days. With political correctness, the internet, globalization, and multiculturalism, people are becoming pressured to be the…

— Robert Black

In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended to weak…

— Samuel Johnson