Art Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first to break…

— Gao Xingjian

My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling…

— Joyelle McSweeney

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

— Joseph Conrad

Formal art is essentially rational.

— Sol LeWitt

I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the…

— Flea

The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is the choice…

— Robert Delaunay

Whether you do your work with notes or without them, do it courageously, earnestly, with devotion; with a glad sense of the greatness of…

— Richard Salter Storrs

You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.

— Bill Viola

I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic,…

— Pauline Kael

The core of my writing is not art but truth.

— Philip K. Dick

Even though what I do does enter the market, it doesn't interest me. I am exclusively concerned with the formal qualities of my work.…

— Louise Bourgeois

I consider it a great honor to be part of the dissemination of hearable art.

— Chris Thile