Art Quote by Willem de Kooning

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

— Willem de Kooning

I do not think good art comes from comfort. While from a humanistic standpoint I would have much rather been at my home that…

— James Vincent McMorrow

I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the more violent…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.

— Vivek Shraya

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art…

— Philippe Petit

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

— Russell Simmons

Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me…

— Willem de Kooning

My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure…

— Jeffrey Lewis

“Art Should Comfort The Disturbed And Disturb The Comforted”

— Cesar Cruz

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

Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

— Vincent Van Gogh