Art Quote by Gustave Courbet

If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

— Jacques Lipchitz

Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.

— Amy Lowell

We have art in order not to die of life.

— Albert Camus

Art can be political, but when it becomes politicized, the purity is ruined.

— Dana Loesch

Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived.

— Edward Steichen

...it is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the public...should be proud of being…

— Leo Steinberg

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

— Duke Ellington

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

— Theodor Adorno

Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death,

— Leonard Baskin

“There could be no objection to homicidal art as art. One could certainly object that an artwork made out of dead bodies is immoral,…

— John McAteer