Art Quote by Lucas Samaras

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

— Patrick Swift

All art is erotic.

— Anonymous

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the…

— Diego Rivera

No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is…

— Egon Schiele

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and…

— Remy de Gourmont

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability

— Shinichi Suzuki

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away…

— Richard Price

I am intrigued by the basics of human life, by our vulnerability, our desires, our sexuality - as far as I am concerned, character…

— Thomas Koerfer

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

— Stephen Stills

If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.

— Naum Gabo

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the…

— Charles Baudelaire

The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.

— T. S. Eliot