American Art Quotes
20 quotes by 19 authors
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I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.
— Tori Amos
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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
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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
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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
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I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.
— Marlene Dumas
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American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.
— Raoul Dufy
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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
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Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art .
— Thomas Jefferson
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Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.
— Robert Motherwell
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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
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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
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Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.
— Martin Scorsese
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— Aberjhani
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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
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Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American.
— Renzo Piano
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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
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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
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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
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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: