Age Quote by Harriet Monroe

Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.

— Gary Holland

Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.

— Gerhard Richter

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

— Clive Bell

“It’s up to the writer and the artist to give voice to these people. There are two impulses in art: one is rebellious and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“tragedy is suffering elevated into art, it’s art that helps humans endure—and sometimes even transcend—their suffering. It’s”

— Jean Hegland

Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which…

— Carl Jung

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“In every age, art holds up to us the standard pattern of exemplary conduct, and real life does its best to conform.”

— Dorothy Sayers

Art is always, even at its most repulsive, an impassioned cry of love.

— Laurence Overmire

Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights…

— Pauli Murray

The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

— Katherine Anne Porter