While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an…

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

— Stephen Rea

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art. Critical…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or…

— Lynda Resnick

Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.

— Eliot Weinberger

If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.

— Frances McDormand

“The postmodern notion of "appropriation" is not a good fit. In New Mexico, the "indigenous" is a syncretic fusion of Native American and Hispano…

— Lucy R. Lippard

I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor, and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for the labor of others,…

— Franz Oppenheimer

I'm not tied to the news cycle. I can do an episode on cultural appropriation, not on Rachel Dolezal. We might make a joke…

— Moshe Kasher

I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the…

— Grover Cleveland

Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to…

— Bell Hooks

As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.

— William Proxmire

Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What you have now then is the marketing of racialized identities as tools for consumption. And certain racialized bodies and images are associated with…

— Amalia Mesa-Bains

We have some of the most influential Members of Congress here today, and I do hope that we can get this appropriation for these…

— John F. Kennedy

What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture?

— Amandla Stenberg