Art Quote by Volatalistic Phil

I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or filmmakers, is…

— Barbara Kruger

“That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to change the world so that they can be happy. This hasn’t ever worked, because…

— Byron Katie

“People have to create some kind of art so they have something to think about other than their shitty lives.”

— Leila Sales

“People have to create some sort of art so they have something to think about other than their shitty lives.”

— Leila Sales

“Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.”

— Oliver Gaspirtz

“Visual and performing artists produce art that lives in the present world. The art of the writer exists in another dimension. Through strings of…

— Mindie Burgoyne

“These artists pay little attention to an encircling present that bears no direct relation to the world of work in which they live, and…

— Thomas Mann

“..the brave picture we have of humans as rational beings is utterly misleading, a kind of photograph of our surface composure and thus unreflective…

— Arnold Weinstein

“In a good society, people are interested in the hard lives of the workers, not in the easy lives of the artists and models!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us.”

— Twyla Tharp

“Our art is made in cities like New York by people who are running from other places. They feel themselves as misfits who were…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates