American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all… — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for… — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form.… — Ben Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence… — John Updike Copy Share Image
When I was growing up and going to art school and learning about African-American art, much of it was a type of… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
I think there's the apparent lack of subtlety and sort of make-believe anti-sensibility connected with American art. I think this is a… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
A great writer named Neal Stephenson said that America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music,… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
The breakdown of the modern movement led to what later became known as postmodern-whatever the hell that means-referring to the mixture of… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
What's happening in the larger world always influences art. When I first started the gallery in 1959, one of the first things… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms. — Len Wein Copy Share Image
Growing up in a traditional environment, I was taught the importance of art, how it's connected to the soul, how it makes… — Michael Horse Copy Share Image
Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example.… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
