Age Quote by George Orwell

There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists…

— Athol Fugard

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life

— Egon Schiele

“No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.”

— Oscar Wilde

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I don't know what art is, but I do know what it isn't. And it isn't someone walking around with a salmon over his…

— Brian Sewell

“Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to transformations that…

— Jennifer Birkett

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

— Oscar Wilde

Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint…

— Kathryn Bigelow

“If an artist can occupy the void of artistry while simultaneously parodying its iconography, they can have their metaphorical cake and cannibalise its crumbs…

— Stewart Stafford

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

— John Fowles

Art attests to what is inhuman in man.

— Alain Badiou