Art Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art…

— Philippe Petit

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The role of art in society is not to resolve conflicts; rather, it is to express these conflicts and antagonisms.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights…

— Pauli Murray

Art is supposed to change and grow and accord with the times. It seems perfect to me that we have a period drama with…

— Claudia Jessie

The truth is that sometimes art may not exactly reflect one's personal politics, but the story, the drama, the thing you're trying to say,…

— Tim Minear

Usually when tragedy is present, a great art movement is right behind it.

— Fantastic Negrito

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

— Morgan Parker

I think you put art out into the world, and sometimes it's divisive, sometimes it's embraced. Sometimes people cry, laugh or have complicated reactions.

— Nicole Kidman

Art is the triumph over chaos.

— John Cheever

Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

— Russell Sherman