Art Quote by Oscar Wilde

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

...if you think of modern art like sex in all its forms - heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, multipartnered, bestial, whatever, with absolutely no holds barred…

— Eve Arnold

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

— George Bernard Shaw

There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.

— Hans Hofmann

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we…

— Andrea Bocelli

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

— Paul McCartney

I think art is, unfortunately, sometimes our only shot at communicating our indignation safely and effectively.

— Andrea Suarez Paz

“What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

All art is very subjective and very personal...

— Milana May

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

— Joyce Cary

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.

— Robert Motherwell