Art Quote by Martin McDonagh

The job of the art is to really convey and support that empathetic response. I always try to find where the character is mushy,…

— Ryan Hurst

My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something…

— Samuel Beckett

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for…

— Aldous Huxley

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because…

— Katharine Hepburn

I think good art does come from a dark place.

— Rick Springfield

The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.

— Quentin Bell

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do…

— Wallace Stevens

And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what…

— Ben Wheatley

I see the beauty of people and the human soul in the pictures I take. And though the circumstances of some of the people…

— G.M.B. Akash

I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing…

— Damian Loeb

In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human…

— David Foster Wallace