“Art is an attempt to integrate evil.”– Simone de Beauvoir Related Quotes “The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.”– Eugene Delacroix “Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.”– John Donne “There’s a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There’s a lot of sex, you know, in art. There’s a lot of naked women and men, and there’s intrigue, there’s fakery. It’s a real microcosm of the larger world.”– Steve Martin