Art Quote by Alexander Stoddart

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of…

— George Boole

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without…

— Joseph de Maistre

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it…

— Alexander Pope

The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and…

— James Keller

The museum in D.C. is really a narrative museum - the nature of a people and how you represent that story. Whereas the Studio…

— David Adjaye

Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a…

— Brian Ferneyhough

The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust…

— Steve Martin

I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been trying to…

— Cory Arcangel

When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about placing a…

— Yasumasa Morimura

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

— Michael Scott

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