Art will never be able to exist without nature.
Pierre Bonnard
The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
Bono
The message of great art is to disturb.
Elayne Boosler
I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing... →
My feet are not a good part of my body. They definitely have suffered for my art. They're, like, all bunions and blisters.
Lindy Booth
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
Jorge Luis Borges
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
Louise Bourgeois
If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
Elizabeth Bowen