Action Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

Art is the communication of ecstasy.

— P.D. Ouspensky

Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic and so…

— Alexander Rodchenko

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

— Emma Goldman

Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.

— Sol Saks

The only thing that is not art is inattention

— Marcel Duchamp

“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

If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in…

— Immortal Technique

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist…

— Bernard Berenson

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope…

— Claude Debussy

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

— Iris Murdoch