666 quotes
“The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.”
"I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist."
— Billy Joel
"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."
— Andy Warhol
"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own."
"Art is what you can get away with."
"The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible."
— Hillary Clinton
"Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth."
— Barbra Streisand
"To have great poets there must be great audiences too."
— Walt Whitman
"The art of art the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity."
"Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings."
— W.H. Auden
"Poetry makes nothing happen."
"The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another."
"Art is born of humiliation."
— W. H. Auden
"Art is to console those who are broken by life."
— Vincent van Gogh
"Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time."
— Thomas Merton
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
"For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide."
— Thomas Mann
"Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art."
— Susan Sontag
"Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us."
"Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us—flesh and bone—only to be spewed out again in our own works."
— Siri Hustvedt
"What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry."
— Salman Rushdie