Art Quote by Romain Rolland

Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Emma Goldman

“In a fearful, eroding democracy, it remains to be seen whether art continues to be free to act in the public sphere or is…

— Gregory Sholette

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who…

— Pauline Kael

“I have always wanted my art to service my people.... We have to create an art for liberation and for life”

— Elizabeth Catlett

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

— Oscar Wilde

“Art becomes so specialized as to be comprehensible only to artists, and they complain bitterly of public indifference to their work. Competition arises. The…

— Wassily Kandinsky

My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression… I feel an affinity for art when it was made a form of…

— Magdalena Abakanowicz

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

— Margaret Atwood

After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of…

— Albert Camus

Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.”

— Keith Haring