Art Quote by Julian Barnes

Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to…

— Harold Bloom

“Art is a conversation we are all invited to and are all worthy to participate in. Yes, great works can be intimidating, but no…

— Rachel Hartman

Art is a line around your thoughts.

— Gustav Klimt

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

— Joseph Conrad

“Art has a noble task: to educate man. That's why the writer's part in our society is a most responsible one. The writers are…

— slawomir mrozek

I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up…

— Siri Hustvedt

“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Great art comes from passion, from a need to expose human spirit in the face of mortality, the small cruelties and heroisms that make…

— Deb Margolis

A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than…

— Margaret Fuller

Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.

— Meher Baba

“And yet the point of view from which his ideas on art had sprung was a simple one: for him, literary schools did not…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

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

— Joseph Conrad