Jazz is part folk art, part progressive art,

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

— Florence Nightingale

Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.

— Angela Davis

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also…

— Salvador Dali

When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects…

— Arlene Croce

The only thing I collect is art. I collect it because I like looking at it. A lot of it is really personal stuff…

— Kathleen Hanna

In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romantic, patriotic,…

— Gilbert Seldes

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.

— John Rothenstein

For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music.…

— Pat Metheny

What I like is not a particular genre, it's storytelling. There's a lot of great storytelling in jazz, and in folk and in country…

— Lizz Wright

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

— Paul Whiteman

If your parents only listen to jazz or folk, you're like one of those trees you see in botanic gardens that have wire frames…

— KT Tunstall

Western, jazz, folk, or tribal music, whatever the form, they all have the same sapta swaras as the basis.

— Ilaiyaraaja

“It isn't a club," I said calmly. "It's a walking stick." "Six feet long." "It's traditional Ozark folk art." "With dents and nicks all…

— Jim Butcher

I'm actually really obsessed with folk art.

— Michael Bastian

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

— Theodor Adorno