„I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.“

— Camille Paglia

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„No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. I mean this as a principle of æsthetic, not merely historical, criticism.“
— T.S. Eliot
„But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.“
— Agatha Christie
„The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.“
— Albert Einstein
„I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.“
— Marcel Duchamp
„Politics is a great art. It succeeds at convincing the people that they have to pay for what has been stolen from them.“
— Andrzej Majewski
„An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.“
— Andrei Tarkovsky