Art Quote by Natalie Clifford Barney

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points…

— Henry Miller

A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when…

— Ernst Junger

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a…

— Angela Carter

“Participation in an art, although unrewarded by wealth or fame...is a way to make one's soul grow.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

There is one art, no more, no less; to do all things with artlessness.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own…

— Ben Shahn

When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you’re forfeiting your humanity.

— Woody Allen

“While art should never become exclusionary and elitist, any culture which fails to support its artists is only contributing to its own impoverishment. (Beyond…

— David N. Elkins

Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and…

— John Galsworthy

“Art and life are seen to be rich and mutually enriching”

— Neville Weston

“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