Aim Quote by Tennessee Williams

There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write…

— Matthew Specktor

Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually…

— Dale Peck

Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist.

— Randy Sanders

“Art has two great functions. First, it provides an emotional experience. And then, if we have the courage of our own feelings, it becomes…

— D.H. Lawrence

“All works of nonfiction, or memoir, have to first and foremost be art before they can be true. They have to be artful first…

— Alan Shapiro

In general I think that in art you only have the responsibility to tell the truth.

— Ken Loach

It is more important to me to make art that is an honest expression of my life than it is to make pictures people…

— John Porcellino

“Art is not a metonym for truth telling. All art is a form of a falsifying; otherwise why would anyone need art to tell…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.

— Al Jourgensen

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 is so valuable that I think its misuse is really dangerous. When it's used well, when it's telling a story well or creating…

— Asia Kate Dillon

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope…

— Claude Debussy