American Art Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more. — Tori Amos
There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of… — John F. Kennedy
I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important… — Christopher Nolan
I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater. — Laura Benanti
I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art. — Marlene Dumas
American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer. — Raoul Dufy
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of… — Mark Twain
Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art . — Thomas Jefferson
Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty. — Robert Motherwell
Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for themselves, and only… — Thomas Eakins
Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists. — Jerry Saltz
Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz. — Martin Scorsese
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The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and sculptors… — Michael Heizer
Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American. — Renzo Piano
If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is. — Clint Eastwood
American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism. — John Updike
I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees and rain and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area. That… — Kyle MacLachlan
Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash… — Charlton Heston

Who Wrote These American Art Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 20 American Art Quotes as follows: