Art Quote by Immanuel Kant

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function,…

— Ernst Fischer

The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of…

— Anton Ehrenzweig

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

— Nadine Gordimer

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

— Madeleine L'Engle

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize…

— Ray Bradbury

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts…

— William Morris

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.

— Michelangelo

I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to…

— Eugene Ionesco

“Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a rubbish-heap limned…

— H.P. Lovecraft