Art Quote by Lionel Shriver

“I laugh at the way some people think graffiti is all selfish tagging and vandalism. Thoughtful street art is like good fiction – it…

— Carla H. Krueger

Like this if you think graffiti is a beautiful artwork, or Unlike this if you think graffiti is just shitty vandalism .

— Mariana

Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don't like to use…

— Banksy

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

— Oscar Wilde

“THE VIRTUE TRAP An artist must have downtime, time to do nothing. Defending our right to such time takes courage, conviction, and resiliency. Such…

— Julia Cameron

“Force, in overabundance, is the enemy of artistry.”

— Tom Verducci

“Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.”

— Anonymous

My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression… I feel an affinity for art when it was made a form of…

— Magdalena Abakanowicz

“Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to transformations that…

— Jennifer Birkett

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion…

— Camille Paglia

“Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from…

— Quentin Crisp

“art is neither good nor bad, but a clairvoyant vision of the nature of both,and any attempt to align it with morality, otherwise called…

— Norhtrop Frye