Art Quote by 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

The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.

— Michael Kimmelman

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

— Stefan Zweig

My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

— Julia Cameron

My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.

— Robert Rauschenberg

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

— Fernando Botero

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

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I always think that art is a form of sacrifice.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

— Gerhard Richter

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

— Ai Weiwei