Art Quote by Jerry Saltz

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

It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else remain forever…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of…

— Oscar Wilde

Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

— Oscar Wilde

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

— Michael Scott

What keeps an artiste going is the adulation of the masses.

— Bappi Lahiri

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live…

— George Saunders

Be it sculpture, poetry, or narrative fraught with terrible insight... art does endure. It troubles and pleases, inspires, and reminds us that humanity is…

— Stephanie Mills

“It is the artist who tries to gradually accustom people to the possibilities of a better state of things.”

— C.A. Dawson Scott

“the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms…

— Joseph Conrad