Appeals Quote by Theodore Kaczynski

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.

— Russell Simmons

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

— Anonymous

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

— Morgan Parker

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure…

— Brian Eno

Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life…

— Jamake Highwater

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be…

— Louise Erdrich

The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be…

— Anonymous

“art is self-sufficient and need serve no moral or political purpose”

— Walter Pater

“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

“Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today…

— Harold Rosenberg

Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.

— Gerhard Richter