Art Quote by Ingmar Bergman

“...the line between art and garbage can be thin. Sometimes even artists cannot see it.”

— The Million Dollar Hotel

There's enough ugliness - you know, we got wars going on and people dying and sickness and everything. We don't need to have our…

— Don McLean

“You looked at them and wondered why the were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that…

— Toni Morrison

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it. Neither, on…

— Lewis Foreman Day

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

— Bono

“It was a fractal of ugliness, disgusting at every level of self-similarity.”

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“The painters could be identified by dirty fingernails; the writers by conversation in labored monosyllables and aggressive vulgarities which disguised their minds.”

— William Gaddis

“Angry is ugly; anger is ugliness!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with…

— Walter J. Phillips

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to…

— Moliere

“She shared the curse of many artists—that praise beaded up and rolled off her while criticism stuck like glue, glue embedded with ground glass.”

— Carol Anshaw