Laura Riding Quotes

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

The arts have long been an integral and vibrant part of our nation's cultural heritage. In its many forms, art enables us to gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and of our society. Providing us with a unique way to learn about people of other cultures, it allows us to discover all that we have in common. At its best, art can beautify our cities, encourage economic development and social change, and profoundly affect the ways we live our lives.

I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

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

Art is good but it isn't the best.

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

There's been too much attention on marketing. Can't we just talk about the paintings?

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.