Art Quote by Gunter Grass

Art is hard for a puritan to understand.

— Gunter Grass

“A puritan culture’s conception of art is something which will endorse its morality and flatter its patriotism.”

— Lawrence Durrell

We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are still puritan…

— John Updike

The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style; he is…

— H. L. Mencken

Art is purposiveness without purpose.

— Anonymous

Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence,…

— Marcel Duchamp

Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion without a purpose.

— Gunter Brus

“If the relation of morality to art were based simply on the demand that art be concerned with values, then almost every author should…

— William H. Gass

I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it,…

— Damien Chazelle

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

— Yoko Ono

Art is something that is so perfectly clear that no one comprehends it.

— Karl Kraus

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

— Theodor Adorno