Art Quote by Walter Benjamin

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not…

— Susan Sontag

“In a world where nearly everything that passes for art is tinny and commercial and often, in addition, hollow and academic, I argue--by reason…

— John Champlin Gardner Jr

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us…

— Oscar Wilde

The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that…

— Robert Adams

The Function of Criticism is the display the understand of art and re-formation of taste, there is promoting by understand and enjoyment of art.

— Anonymous

Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.

— Cindy Sherman

Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the…

— Henry James

“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." In short, entertainment fulfills…

— William Missouri Downs

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more,…

— Susan Sontag

A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its…

— Northrop Frye

“Read as little as possible in the way of aesthetics and criticism - it will either be partisan views, fossilized and made meaningless in…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“We should realize that if something untrue or immoral is stated in great art, it can be far more devastating than if it is…

— Francis A. Schaeffer