Art Quote by Chilly Gonzales

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

— Kingsley Amis

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

— Raoul Dufy

Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

— David Mamet

American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.

— Gutzon Borglum

What's happening in the larger world always influences art. When I first started the gallery in 1959, one of the first things I learned…

— Virginia Dwan

The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and…

— Michael Heizer

“The glass display cases had shown rock-throwers crafted by the Australian aborigines - like giant wooden shoehorns, they'd looked, but smoothed and carved and…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art is really…

— Scott McClanahan

It wasn't stone. It wasn't welded steel. It wasn't traditional sculpture. They thought it was craft, or something else, but not art. They couldn't…

— Ruth Asawa

The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the…

— Carlisle Floyd

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in…

— Robert Henri