Art Quote by Jack Conte

Patronage is a very old phenomenon that's occurred in people and in society for thousands of years. It stems from an emotional response to…

— Jack Conte

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human…

— Eric Hoffer

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

— Michelangelo

All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence…

— Erich Fromm

Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations…

— Jonathan Culler

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“For an important intellectual product to be immediately weighty, a deep relationship or concordance has to exist between the life of its creator and…

— Thomas Mann

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

— Christopher Lasch

Art has to be reflective of our society.

— David Zayas

What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.

— Audrey Flack

Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence,…

— Marcel Duchamp