Art Quote by Lydia Millet

“Samuel thundered that no American factory hand was worth more than eighty cents a day. And yet he could be thankful for the opportunity…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.”

— Raoul Vaneigem

“In other words, art is a realm entirely separated from the interests of real life-a refuge for detached and gifted souls from sordid political…

— DeWitt Henry Parker

“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

“The appeal of modern art remained a mystery to him.”

— Dan Brown

“Once you have hundreds of millions of dollars, it’s hard to know where to put it all. Art is transportable, unregulated, glamorous, arcane, beautiful,…

— Nick Paumgarten

“Great art, I've always felt, is like a pearl; thousands of layers of creativity and sensibility built up around an inner core of money.”

— K.J. Parker

“For the love of his art”

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“I always thought that if I suffered enough in service of Art, if I laid down my life to please the world, I could…

— Amelia Gray

“Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium. — HENRI MATISSE”

— Jack Flam

“At the point in his lecture where he was saying that the representative element in a work of art is always irrelevant, that for…

— Joy Williams

“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana