Art Quote by Robert Schumann

If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.

— Walter Becker

“The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into…

— Oscar Wilde

There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about…

— Steven Curtis Chapman

When you celebrate somebody's bad work on the terms that define their good work, how can that artist have anything but contempt for an…

— Greil Marcus

Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all,…

— Claude Debussy

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

— Kate Smith

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to…

— Moliere

It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its…

— Thomas Mann

This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Art has an obligation to offend

— Edward Albee

There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching…

— David Bowie

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

— Saul Bellow