Arbiter Quote by Barbara Goldsmith

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address the question…

— Alain de Botton

Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.

— Regina Spektor

As long as artists arbitrarily assume the right to decide what is or is not art, it is logical that the public will just…

— Leon Krier

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

— Rebecca West

A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter...

— Henri Matisse

That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective seems to be regarded as an arrogant attitude. But the truer view…

— Tyrone Guthrie

Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.

— Jane Smiley

Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.

— Samuel Beckett

When art works travel from place to place, what you have is the opportunity to engage with the intellect of another person who has…

— Kerry James Marshall

We have to put aside the customary historical reading of works of art in order to invite art to respond to certain quite specific…

— Alain de Botton

Art is the manipulation of someone else's imagination.

— Sol Saks

Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious - about insight beyond reason. If his insight were reasonable, anyone…

— David Mamet