Art Quote by Walter J. Phillips

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

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

— Anonymous

All art is advertising. It stands for a particular point of view. Art that exploits badness is advertising badness.

— Jack Beal

Art is purposiveness without purpose.

— Anonymous

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

— Laura Riding

“If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom…

— Oscar Wilde

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

— Benjamin Constant

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

— Carl Andre

Artists used to argue about art for art's sake versus social realism etc, and now it's like the most dominate argument is related to…

— Lee Klein

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom…

— Oscar Wilde

“Art is a true aesthetic synthesis , "a priori" of feeling and image in the intuition, as to which it may be repeated that…

— Benedetto Croce

“art is self-sufficient and need serve no moral or political purpose”

— Walter Pater