Art Quote by James Vincent McMorrow

As much as I believe in the capacity for art to create change, and as much as being an artist is physically and emotionally…

— Vivek Shraya

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think...…

— Willem de Kooning

My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.

— Jeff Tweedy

All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making…

— John Boorman

Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.

— Amanda Palmer

I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.

— Neil LaBute

Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that.

— Ed Kowalczyk

I grew up in a very artistic, cultured home, but without any kind of spirituality. My parents were secular materialists, so I saw art…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure…

— Jeffrey Lewis

There is a certain comfort that comes from feeling intellectually apart from phenomena. That you have the luxury of time to reflect or apply…

— Carrie Brownstein

Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in…

— Richard Serra