Art Quote by Susan Sontag

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals,…

— Michel Foucault

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

— Theodor Adorno

Art is meant to disturb

— Georges Braque

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

— Elbert Hubbard

“Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art.”

— Susan Sontag

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us…

— Oscar Wilde

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is…

— Ken Baumann

When anything can be art, art is not much of anything.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

— Leo Tolstoy

The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.

— T. S. Eliot

I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.

— Lynn Nottage

“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