I had always loved Haitian art, but I stumbled onto Haiti…

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 folk art of the twentieth century.

— John Rothenstein

I really don't like being referred to as a folk artist.

— John Martyn

People still kind of think of me as like a folk artist, but on the first record, I truly was deferring to other people…

— Phoebe Bridgers

I always thought the women of my age group got short shrift because the women's liberation movement came slightly after. You look at the…

— Kevin Starr

I'm not a go-out-with-a-band artist. I'm an intimate, storytelling folk artist. It guides the writing and makes for a concert that I'm proud of.

— Shawn Colvin

I love Inuit art, and most anything you would find in a folk art museum, as well as children's art or children's book illustrators…

— Neil Farber

“This is the kind of touch they like: folk art, archaic, made by women, in their spare time, from things that have no further…

— Margaret Atwood

“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

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

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

— John Rothenstein

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

— Theodor Adorno

I'm actually really obsessed with folk art.

— Michael Bastian

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

— Noam Chomsky