Art Quote by Ai Weiwei

An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called…

— Joseph Plaskett

The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.

— Ayn Rand

I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what artists are…

— China Chow

Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of fruit is…

— Adamo Macri

The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.

— Michael Scott

One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people.

— Laurence Graff

Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.

— Constantine Karamanlis

“Poetry is the most potent form of philosophy.”

— Abhijit Naskar

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined…

— Juan Goytisolo