Art Quote by Brice Marden

Art should not have to be a certain way,

— Willem de Kooning

In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special case; we…

— Jay L. Garfield

It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when…

— Robert Motherwell

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level,…

— Frank Ocean

Art can go beyond certain boundaries or blindness that we would have without that.

— Adrien Brody

“Within Western art the dead white body has often been a sight of veneration, an object of beauty. While Christ on the cross may…

— Richard Dyer

History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans…

— Clint Smith

When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five centuries of…

— Arne Glimcher

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

— Hilton Als

At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is…

— Germaine Greer

The implausible, well-nigh-miraculous functioning anarchy that we know as New York is adorned with every excellence of Western art. It is a city of…

— Ibn Warraq

When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western…

— Michael Craig-Martin