Art Quote by John Corigliano

I consider tragedy the highest form of art.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful and un-dealt-with.…

— Neil Gaiman

Tragedy is the highest form of art.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Usually when tragedy is present, a great art movement is right behind it.

— Fantastic Negrito

“tragedy is suffering elevated into art, it’s art that helps humans endure—and sometimes even transcend—their suffering. It’s”

— Jean Hegland

Artists react to tragedy by doing something both as a way for us as artists to process our pain and our grief and our…

— Marc Andreyko

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

— Leo Tolstoy

Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights…

— Pauli Murray

My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain…

— Howard Barker

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

— Salvador Dali