Argument Quote by George Steiner

I've always taken the view that works of art are not just things that we enjoy. They can convey truths about the world more…

— Roger Scruton

“A work of art doesn’t need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking questions and…

— Christopher Bram

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

— Leonard Bernstein

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or…

— Susan Sontag

In art it is always as though the question is what the work of art is really about.

— Roger Scruton

“Among the hardest problems an art theory faces are questions about how to settle art’s meaning through interpretation”

— Cynthia Freeland

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

— Rebecca West

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult…

— Anselm Kiefer

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

— Guy Davenport

I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to…

— Chinua Achebe

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

— Joyce Cary

“A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts raising questions. It…

— Erik Pevernagie