Art Quote by Robert Adams

I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.

— Chaim Potok

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Evil is not an abstract concept. It lives. It has a form. It stalks. It is too real.”

— Tom Dooley

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

— Charles Baudelaire

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas…

— Yann Martel

If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, every…

— Janet Fitch

“Evil should not be, Detective Vera. Truly never can be. But in defining it as such, an inherent human bond with negativity confirms its…

— John Claude Smith

“Evil things often look beautiful. But that's because they've stolen the beauty from the good.... Evil isn't beautiful on its own.”

— Regina Doman

“After all, what is art if not a true image and a criterion for the perfection of the human soul?”

— Dörthe Binkert

“Art is just another way to describe and classify reality – its mystical aspects merely a function of ignorance.”

— Neal Asher

“Evil is never abstract. It is always concrete, always particular and always vested in individuals. To deny monsters as individuals the right to speak,…

— Clive Barker

“Art does what reality cannot.”

— Jayme K