Art Quote by Johann Johannsson

“Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of…

— Max Beckmann

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

— Matthew Collings

Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.

— E. L. Doctorow

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

— Max Beckmann

“People experience art as a transformative or even transcendent experience when it really only reflects back and awakens parts of them that are already…

— Stewart Stafford

Art is a unifying language for all of us from across the world, and it transcends boundaries.

— Ilaiyaraaja

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some…

— Ai Weiwei

A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.

— Wendy Beckett

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.

— Neil Gaiman

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

— Yoko Ono

I just love what art can do and what it means for us; that it can cross barriers. It can speak to us across…

— Travis Knight

I think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power, the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind form all…

— Joseph Beuys