Art Quote by Toni Morrison

When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism.

— Howard Jacobson

“Art is all the implicit knowledge, mechanisms and processes that are not yet fit with the method and consensus of science.”

— Nader Ibrahim

“Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are…

— Oscar Wilde

“Writing, as most art, is considered to be essentially superfluous. Who is an artist before a surgeon? Or a scientist? But the fact that…

— Rainer J. Hanshe

“I wanted to tell you that art is the most harmless activity of mankind. But I suddenly recalled that art was often used for…

— Magdalena Abakanowicz

In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they…

— Luis Bunuel

Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's…

— Matthew Collings

Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving.

— Fela Kuti

Art can be political, but when it becomes politicized, the purity is ruined.

— Dana Loesch

The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its…

— Edmund Wilson

“It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of media than…

— Robert Hughes

Art is a step in the known toward the unknown

— Khalil Gibran