Art Quote by Marcel Duchamp

“Art is, in its purity, an aesthetic means of expression in a time of rising neglect.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

“Whatever in a work of art is not used, is doing harm.”

— C.S. Lewis

“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We place too much of ourselves inside art - so we become part of it and never feel quiet again for the people, we…

— Laura Chouette

“For me, art is the desire to preserve the intangible feeling of such a moment, hidden in all the littlest details, and then to…

— Rachel Hartman

“The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful; always it is irrelevant. For, to appreciate a work of…

— Clive Bell

“art is risk made visible”

— Arno Rafael Minkkinen

“The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in…

— Arthur Phillips

“Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock.”

— Milan Kundera

“I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public…

— Glenn Gould

“Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a rubbish-heap limned…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“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