Action Quote by John Dryden

What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as…

— Henry Fielding

“Art is not just a display of beauty. Art also reflects what is ugly, and it celebrates the grotesque. An artist frequently creates what…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.

— Martin Firrell

“It is a grotesque misapprehension which sees in art no more than a craft comprehensible perfectly only to the craftsman: art is a manifestation…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore,

— Jean Dubuffet

But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic…

— Wyndham Lewis

The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.

— William Dobell

Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are…

— Robert A. Heinlein

All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.

— John Banville

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in…

— John Ruskin

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell…

— Anonymous

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

— John Fowles