Art Quote by Leo Steinberg

“art is risk made visible”

— Arno Rafael Minkkinen

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

— Duke Ellington

Art is so valuable that I think its misuse is really dangerous. When it's used well, when it's telling a story well or creating…

— Asia Kate Dillon

Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.

— Wayne White

Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.

— Jean Helion

All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making…

— John Boorman

“The claims of contemporary art cannot be ignored in any vital scheme of life. The art of to-day is that which really belongs to…

— Kakuzō Okakura

I'm not belittling the art world. Not at all. I take it quite seriously, actually. But the logic of art is a vanguard logic…

— Rachel Kushner

“If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom…

— Oscar Wilde

Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private…

— Richard Eyre

“[...] For the first time ever, images of art have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available, valueless, free. They surround us in the same way…

— John Berger

“Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us…

— Oscar Wilde