Art Quote by John D'Agata

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Design is not art. Design is utilitarian, art is not.

— Massimo Vignelli

There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write…

— Matthew Specktor

“Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.”

— Kayla Rae Whitaker

Art has to be reflective of our society.

— David Zayas

Art makes you a better human being, and that reflects in society.

— Pankaj Tripathi

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— Matthew Collings

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

— Yoko Ono

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

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

— Gustave Flaubert

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

— Theodor Adorno