Art Quote by Grayson Perry

You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless toil, not…

— Romain Rolland

My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling…

— Joyelle McSweeney

My art gives contemporary art a juvenile-delinquent phase. Its self-made style gleefully trashes conventions of beauty and society while pick-pocketing from the coolest underground…

— Steve Olson

Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.

— Doris Lessing

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

— Emma Goldman

Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.

— Lawrence Weiner

Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the…

— Aleksandar Hemon

My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.

— Genesis P-Orridge

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

— Francis Picabia

Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and…

— John Galsworthy

My art should have a lightness and sweetness. Especially since it has heavy and triggering subject matters, I prefer to present it in a…

— Zoe Buckman

Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to…

— Simon Schama