Art Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

Although I do not care for the slogan "art for art's sake", there can be no question that what makes a work of fiction…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Whatever in a work of art is not used, is doing harm.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to transformations that…

— Jennifer Birkett

“Protect art. It is the antidote to the innate barbarism of the human race.”

— Peter Adolphsen

“It is dangerous to condemn stories as junk which satisfy the deep hunger of millions of people. These books are not literary art, but…

— Judith Skelton-Grant

“The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful; always it is irrelevant. For, to appreciate a work of…

— Clive Bell

“All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction...”

— John Julius Norwich

“I always thought that if I suffered enough in service of Art, if I laid down my life to please the world, I could…

— Amelia Gray

“In other words, art is a realm entirely separated from the interests of real life-a refuge for detached and gifted souls from sordid political…

— DeWitt Henry Parker

Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

— Timothy Findley

“A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality.”

— George Saunders

“Art has a noble task: to educate man. That's why the writer's part in our society is a most responsible one. The writers are…

— slawomir mrozek