Aesthetic Quote by George Orwell

“And all this culture, all this art, was simply a trick. It allowed us to pretend that human beings were noble, intelligent creatures who'd…

— Gordon Reece

“The obsession with correct political belief and expression in art is stultifying the genre as it is necessarily exclusive. We are losing our voice…

— Scott M. Roberts

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because…

— Laurie Anderson

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

— John F. Kennedy

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of…

— Stephen King

“Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates…

— Kamand Kojouri

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It…

— Keith Haring

Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which…

— Carl Jung

Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith…

— Edward Bond

I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.

— Kehinde Wiley

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision of reality,…

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Fernando Pessoa