Art Quote by Joseph Conrad

“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.”

— Joseph Conrad

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

“Any work aspiring to be art however humble should carry its justification in every line.”

— Joseph Conrad

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my…

— Kiki Smith

Art should not have to be a certain way,

— Willem de Kooning

A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study…

— Ben Shahn

A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

— Francis Picabia

Art is right reason in the doing of work.

— Thomas Aquinas

“Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every meaning that…

— William T. Vollmann

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

— Takeshi Kitano