Art Quote by Nazanin Boniadi

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

— Duke Ellington

There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, which are really forces of censorship -either religious bodies or zealots who…

— John Boorman

Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.

— Edward Albee

All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making…

— John Boorman

Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it.

— Elmer Rice

Without art, you don't have society. It underpins so much.

— Louise Wilson

Art is so valuable that I think its misuse is really dangerous. When it's used well, when it's telling a story well or creating…

— Asia Kate Dillon

...it is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the public...should be proud of being…

— Leo Steinberg

I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom

— Ai Weiwei

Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

— Joyce Carol Oates

There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for, that have…

— Peter London

“Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to transformations that…

— Jennifer Birkett