Art Quote by Ava DuVernay

It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get it to…

— Lynn Nottage

What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.

— Tom Rachman

Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional art…

— Robert Hughes

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

— Jerry Saltz

Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we…

— Mohsin Hamid

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

— Ariel Gore

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

The thing is, if you're going to take the artistic path, you sort of have to make peace with the idea or the possibility…

— Lela Loren

The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have…

— Kehinde Wiley

We accept so many things that come through the media; we get used to them, however vigilant we are. But for any creative art,…

— Keith Jarrett

To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any…

— Emily Mortimer

Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of…

— Ali Smith