Art Quote by Samuel Beckett

Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

— Langdon Brown Gilkey

Art is the questioning of culture

— Gerard Mortier

Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.

— Bill Viola

I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made

— Robert Mapplethorpe

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address the question…

— Alain de Botton

“A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts raising questions. It…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search…

— Barbra Streisand

There's a radical change in the relationship with the human being and society. Art now is an open conversation with the society. Previously there…

— Lawrence Weiner

Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it…

— James A. Baldwin

Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the…

— Alex Grey

Art has to be reflective of our society.

— David Zayas

Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to…

— Rockwell Kent