Art Quote by Patti Smith

“I have become a veritable scholar in seemingly innocent ploys to get his skin against mine.”

— Mackenzi Lee

“Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our most beautiful images, for you gave…

— Albert Camus

“I am having a hard time throwing off the skin that I pick and peel.”

— Samantha Schutz

“I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who would wound me.”

— Archilochus of Paros

“for that which is a disgrace to human nature, throws something of a shade over all the human character, and each individual feels his…

— Thomas Paine

“We have been tarnished by the views of generations, painted on with society's standards, but if we wipe away the dust, and polish the…

— Jason Micheal Ratliff

“Whatever in a work of art is not used, is doing harm.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.”

— Jim Morrison

“Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill of it: the story told for…

— Clive Barker

“...the special quality of works of Art being to produce the momentary conviction that anything else whatever could not possibly be so good.”

— M.P. Shiel

“There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky