Artist Quote by George Clooney

A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that was degenerative…

— Grant Heslov

When someone tries to take over a country or a culture, they destroy the art.

— Jonathan Majors

Why dont they stick to murder and leave art to us?

— Jacob Epstein

Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since…

— Al Alvarez

Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these photographs did.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Art and war are opposites, so our goal as an artist is to build and create, not destroy.

— Sergei Polunin

Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these Abu Ghraib photographs did.

— Hunter S. Thompson

They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.

— Muhammad Ali

“While photographs certainly attest to Nazi crimes, the magnitude of Nazi genocide demands that every trace of the regime be forever remembered. The various…

— Steven Heller

Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our…

— Willem de Kooning

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

— Walter Gropius

“I wanted to tell you that art is the most harmless activity of mankind. But I suddenly recalled that art was often used for…

— Magdalena Abakanowicz