Abstract Quote by Andy Warhol

These days people believe they can go into art and make a living. We didn't have that. The abstract expressionists were older, by the…

— Brice Marden

I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at…

— Martin Firrell

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals,…

— Michel Foucault

“In every age, art holds up to us the standard pattern of exemplary conduct, and real life does its best to conform.”

— Dorothy Sayers

If art is to flourish in the twenty-first century, it must renew its moral authority by rededicating itself to life. It must be an…

— Frederick Hart

In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealousy, hatred, envy, and greed... . Today…

— Tawfiq al-Hakim

The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture.

— Meyer Schapiro

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world…

— Vivienne Westwood

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature…

— Rudolf Arnheim

“The claims of contemporary art cannot be ignored in any vital scheme of life. The art of to-day is that which really belongs to…

— Kakuzō Okakura

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is…

— Ken Baumann

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.

— David Elliott