Art Quote by John Boorman

There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, which are really forces of censorship -either religious bodies or zealots who…

— John Boorman

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he…

— Rebecca West

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

— Duke Ellington

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared…

— Muriel Rukeyser

“Making art can feel dangerous and revealing. Making art is dangerous and revealing. Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay between what…

— David Bayles

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

— Russell Simmons

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us…

— Oscar Wilde

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

— Randall Jarrell

Art is one of the few ways we have of dealing with things that frighten or anger us.

— Eric Drooker

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails in surmounting…

— Jerry Saltz

Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.

— Deborah Eisenberg

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

— Theodor Adorno