American society Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

Now, at a moment when photography is so pervasive that it's been forced to grapple with its own identity and look inward, it feels…

— Cynthia Daignault

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic

— Anonymous

“In the first two decades of the twentieth century, experts advised men to have their kitchens painted apple-green. The experts believed that apple-green quieted…

— John R. Stilgoe

The culture of the United States has flooded the world. It's the inevitable result of a powerful culture, art. We've got an instinctive touch…

— Arthur Miller

In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.

— H. G. Wells

We tend to take on the coloration of the setting in which we find ourselves.

— Harold S. Kushner

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent.…

— Squeak Carnwath

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

— Robert Ryman

It is through color changes that we go forward... all decisions come about as the picture is made and in response to painterly demands.…

— Wolf Kahn

Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and…

— Donald Judd