Accepting Quote by John Banville

“Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are…

— Oscar Wilde

“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Art is always, even at its most repulsive, an impassioned cry of love.

— Laurence Overmire

“The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

— Jennifer Aniston

“In a world where nearly everything that passes for art is tinny and commercial and often, in addition, hollow and academic, I argue--by reason…

— John Champlin Gardner Jr

Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.

— Meher Baba

It's not ideal when art is seen as just some passing entertainment quickly thrown out into the market, like a consumer object. You have…

— Christine Leunens

Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through one character…

— Philipp Meyer

Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as…

— Barbara Kruger

We have to put aside the customary historical reading of works of art in order to invite art to respond to certain quite specific…

— Alain de Botton