Anxiety Quote by Kehinde Wiley

Through the history of art we can see through the emotional life, and sometimes the financial security of some of the artists, some transformation.…

— Arman

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a…

— Edward Hopper

My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy,

— H. R. Giger

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

— Morgan Parker

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

— Theodor Adorno

“My own general thesis was somewhat to this effect: that Artists have worried the world by being wantonly, needlessly, and gratuitously progressive. Politicians have…

— G.K. Chesterton

Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think…

— Laura Owens

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.

— Peter Weiss

A lot of art can potentially make people uncomfortable, particularly when it deals with different times and hard issues.

— Mary Katharine Ham

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

— Oscar Wilde

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

— John Irving

Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which…

— Carl Jung