Art Quote by Will Shetterly

Art can influence people, and indeed it should do that as well.

— Suresh Gopi

I think art can really serve to inspire a movement - and, of course, it has in the past. The Civil Rights movement wouldn't…

— Saul Williams

Art is activism.

— Angie Thomas

“Art is only important to the extent that it aids in the liberation of our people.”

— Elizabeth Catlett

I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.

— Kehinde Wiley

“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

“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

“Art and savagery, aesthetics and violence. Were they contradictory or symbiotic?”

— Christopher Brookmyre

“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.”

— Keith Haring

I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society.

— Trevor Paglen

Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition…

— Henry Flynt

“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