Argument Quote by Jon Foreman

Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is…

— Randall Jarrell

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.

— Tyler Cowen

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Yoko Ono

Well, everything you do in life you have to do if it's an art.

— MC Hammer

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

— Rebecca West

That's the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the right thing…

— Benh Zeitlin

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

I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you...

— Lawrence Durrell

“The things we agree to call art are the shamanic tokens of our time. We value them beyond all reason because we can't really…

— Jade Chang

The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself…

— Gerry Spence