Answers Quote by Leonard Bernstein

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

“A work of art doesn’t need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking questions and…

— Christopher Bram

I think that all great art never strives to answer any questions; it just asks the appropriate ones at the appropriate time.

— Rhys Ifans

“Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imagery...You are…

— Anton Chekhov

The role of art in society is not to resolve conflicts; rather, it is to express these conflicts and antagonisms.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

What is art?... From a strictly logical point of view, a question with no clear answer comes under the suspicion of being meaningless. But…

— Carter Ratcliff

It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass.

— Michael Haneke

“art is question without answer; religion is question and answer, where the answer cannot be explained but only repeated; science is question and answer,…

— Efraim Podoksik

I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes…

— George Steiner

Art, to me, is a question. It should never be an answer.

— Marilyn Manson

“Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search…

— Barbra Streisand

A work of art doesn't have to be explained,

— Louise Bourgeois