Happens Quote by Catherine Opie

Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream.

— Steve Buscemi

Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic.

— Kerry James Marshall

What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream.

— Ashton Kutcher

If you never, or rarely, see your experience depicted in art or pop culture then you can begin to feel isolated or separate; Othered.…

— Mae Martin

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

— Michel Gondry

The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream.

— Richard Florida

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

— Ellen Key

Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted...

— Sigfried Giedion

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and…

— Oscar Wilde

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

— Gaston Bachelard

“When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit them, they are also cut off from the historical circumstances that shape them, and…

— Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a…

— Northrop Frye