Art Quote by Marcus Aurelius

Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

— Carl Jung

I think we've reached a point now in culture where seeing depictions and images of Satan and Satanism and demons and witchcraft and the…

— Jonathan Roumie

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

— Alan Moore

I've always thought that, especially in the arts, people put this currency on being deep and mysterious and aloof. To hell with that.

— Sam Ryder

Usually at the core of fiction that has some element of the absurd there tends to be an examination of some societal ills that…

— Laurie Foos

It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you can get…

— Jeannette Walls

For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity, and makes…

— David Hume

“In account after account of exorcisms the demonic voices will propound nihilism of one variety or another.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we…

— Victor Hugo

The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.

— Robert Sheckley

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job…

— Bruce Springsteen

Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be…

— Immanuel Kant