Art Quote by Kiki Smith

A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively…

— Theodor Adorno

The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

— Takeshi Kitano

Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your work.

— Dianne Reeves

“Art manifests itself in paradoxical ways. At times it creates and at times it gets created!”

— Avijeet Das

I've always taken the view that works of art are not just things that we enjoy. They can convey truths about the world more…

— Roger Scruton

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of…

— Albert Camus

Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something else: a…

— Chris Kraus

Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the…

— Patti Smith

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the…

— Charles Bukowski

There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write…

— Matthew Specktor

If you have something you do that's unique, you just end up in situations. Your art can take you to places without you working…

— Reggie Watts

“It is often said that great works of art are “inexhaustible”—capable, as Stanley Olson put it, of “endless interpretation. But Lubin, the Charlotte C.…

— Roger Kimball