Art Quote by Barbara Kruger

What's called art now probably has some legitimate things happening in it, but I've become more and more distrustful of a lot of it…

— Art Spiegelman

Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.

— Watkin Tudor Jones

I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created.

— Douglas Adams

I think when people struggle with the problem of trying to understand the art world as an idea, they misunderstand it. They think it's…

— Liam Gillick

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

— Jeanette Winterson

Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.

— Deborah Eisenberg

It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create,…

— Adam Davidson

People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.

— Victoria Legrand

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope…

— Claude Debussy

The idea of making [conceptual] art was not a good way to approach things... Instead I saw myself as trying to make something that…

— Sandy Skoglund

I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a…

— Michael Craig-Martin

Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another…

— Roy Lichtenstein