Art Quote by Robertson Davies

“Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.”

— Oscar Wilde

Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.

— Philip Schultz

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

— Evelyn Waugh

“Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime”

— Theodor Adorno

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

— Theodor Adorno

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

— Mason Cooley

“Crime belongs exclusively to the lower orders. I don't blame them in the smallest degree. I should fancy that crime was to them what…

— Oscar Wilde

A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.

— Charles Baudelaire

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

— Shirin Neshat

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.

— Gunter Grass

“Paths to crime are not neatly divided”

— Leanne Fiftal Alarid

I don’t believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That’s bullshit.

— David Byrne