Art Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.

— Amy Lowell

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

— Gustave Courbet

Sex and art are the same thing.

— Pablo Picasso

“artists have sex but art has none”

— Oscar Wilde

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

— Theodor Adorno

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

— Jeff Koons

“Vital art comes always from a cross between art and life: art being of one sex only, and quite sterile by itself. Such a…

— George Bernard Shaw

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

— Edgar Degas

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

— Albert Camus

There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Art is the sex of the imagination.

— George Jean Nathan

Art is there for nourishment, not explication.

— Walter Darby Bannard