Folk Art Quotes
13 quotes by 13 authors
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Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
— Theodor Adorno
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Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
— Noam Chomsky
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Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century.
— John Rothenstein
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When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of…
— Arlene Croce
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Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands…
— F. Sionil José
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Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information on to the…
— Grayson Perry
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A game may be as integral to a culture, as true an object of human aesthetic appreciation, as admirable a product of creativity as a…
— Michael Dummett
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Jazz is part folk art, part progressive art,
— Mulgrew Miller
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I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.
— Lara Spencer
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It is said that my art has some typically Nordic features: the curving lines, the convolutions, the magical masks and staring eyes that appear in…
— Asger Jorn
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Hip-hop is the last true folk art.
— Mos Def
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish,…
— Salma Hayek
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The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.
— Leslie Fiedler
Who Wrote These Folk Art Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 13 Folk Art Quotes as follows: