Art Quote by Russell Sherman

“Nothing could be less conducive to reaching an art-work than critical remarks:it's always simply a matter of more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Everything cannot…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights…

— Pauli Murray

I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in their fusion…

— Douglas Portway

I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures…

— Joyce Carol Oates

A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively…

— Theodor Adorno

“Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every meaning that…

— William T. Vollmann

“Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things aren't all…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“ All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. For while in all other kinds of art it is possible to distinguish the…

— Walter Pater

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my…

— Kiki Smith

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.

— Raymond Pettibon

It's unfortunately true that if you mess up a single detail of the art world the whole thing seems false, and most writers are…

— Rachel Kushner