Art Quote by Irving Stone

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

— Martin Freeman

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

— Randall Jarrell

Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their figures perfect;…

— Aldous Huxley

“Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are…

— Oscar Wilde

“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe… Our love of…

— Tyler Cowen

As much as I love art, there is no art as fine as the world we have been given.

— Mark Helprin

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life…

— Charles Ives

Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art…

— David Shields

It's not ideal when art is seen as just some passing entertainment quickly thrown out into the market, like a consumer object. You have…

— Christine Leunens

There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.

— Ernst Gombrich

I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

— Jerry Saltz