Art Quote by Michael Kimmelman

I think firmly that art is no use to anyone unless it offers some kind of consolation or hope.

— Nick Hornby

I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.

— Jeff Tweedy

This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a…

— Thomas Ligotti

“Art can bring us consolation as individuals,” he said, “but it is powerless against reality.”

— Stefan Zweig

There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.

— John Currin

Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.

— Gerhard Richter

“Lovemaking is the consolation for living in the body, just as art is the consolation for living in the world.”

— Laura Argiri

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

— Fernando Botero

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Art is giving to what you create a soul.

— Rithy Panh

I think art is a healing force, and if we give in to the joy that can be found in art, then we are…

— Ntozake Shange

When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down…

— Robert Bly