Art Quote by Karl Kraus

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas…

— Vladimir Nabokov

PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently…

— Ambrose Bierce

I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own…

— Michael Longley

Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as…

— Leslie Stephen

A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

— Louis Dudek

An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel…

— Henri Matisse

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.

— Susan Sontag

“Life is seen as an ongoing war between art and philistinism - and although the philistines may win some of the battles, it is…

— Helon Habila

An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and probably contrary…

— Peter Schjeldahl

Artists never seem to get bored with life.

— John Kurtz

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

— Dorothy L. Sayers