Art Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can form no surer bond with it than through art

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

— Randall Jarrell

“One cannot escape from the world with greater certainty than through art, and one cannot relate to it with greater certainty than through art.”

— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

“The nature of a work of art is to be not a part, nor yet a copy of the real world but a world…

— A.C. Bradley

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

— Gustave Flaubert

“The independence of art from worldview and worldview concerns is a myth. Every work of art is produced within a framework of worldview assumptions.”

— Douglas Wilson

I think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world.

— Camille Henrot

When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that's the greatest likelihood that we're…

— Richard Phillips

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will…

— Wendy Beckett

We do not wish to "judge" or assess out surrounding merely as a kind of expressive activity carelessly projected onto the world, but we…

— Raymond Geuss

For most of us, art is supposed to do something more than simply mirror the confusions of the world.

— Michiko Kakutani