American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations…

We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are still puritan…

— John Updike

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes…

— Charlton Heston

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

— Tori Amos

American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form. And cinema…

— Ben Dreyfuss

What's happening in the larger world always influences art. When I first started the gallery in 1959, one of the first things I learned…

— Virginia Dwan

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

— Henry Adams

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

— Jerry Saltz

The breakdown of the modern movement led to what later became known as postmodern-whatever the hell that means-referring to the mixture of people and…

— Tony Shafrazi

I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.

— Aby Rosen

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

— Raoul Dufy

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

— Len Wein

The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and…

— Michael Heizer

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age…

— John F. Kennedy

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.

— Robert Motherwell

When I was growing up and going to art school and learning about African-American art, much of it was a type of political art…

— Kehinde Wiley