Aesthetic Quote by Goldwin Smith

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

— John Irving

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom…

— Oscar Wilde

“Part of what attracts us to artists is their otherness, their refusal to conform, their big middle finger stuck up in the face of…

— Jesse Kellerman

We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes in sacred…

— Kenneth Clark

There is a claim coming from the West that says that all art must be outside any moral consideration. I can understand this as…

— Tariq Ramadan

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

— Aleksandar Hemon

The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with…

— Camille Paglia

Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that…

— Ken Danby

“[Medieval] Art was not just a static element in society, or even one which interacted with the various social groups. It was not simply…

— Conrad Rudolph

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

— Randall Jarrell

The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

— Patrick Swift

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

— Andre Gide