Art Quote by Peter Weiss

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

“Why do we sacrifice so much energy to our art? Not in order to teach others but to learn with them what our existence,…

— Jerzy Grotowski

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a…

— Anonymous

“Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.”

— Anonymous

Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and staff, my…

— Jeanette Winterson

Why make art ? To quiet the mind thus making it susceptible to divine influences.

— John Cage

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

— Fernando Pessoa

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

— Emma Goldman

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

“Just as that puzzled savage who has picked up - a strange cast-up from the ocean? - something unearthed from the sands? - or…

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

“Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.”

— Louis Faurer

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

— Wassily Kandinsky