Age Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life…

— Charles Ives

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to…

— Hans Haacke

Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.

— Richard Serra

The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

— Albert Camus

As the beauty of the picture depends not on the painter but on the picture itself, what I say must depend on its own…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Creativity and expression of one’s art can only be measured by the audience to whom it was intended for.  Not everyone is going to…

— Anne-Rae Vasquez

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

— Frederick Sommer

You should go to picture-galleries and museums of sculpture to be acted upon, and not to express or try to form your own perfectlyfutile…

— Anna Brackett

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk…

— John Guare

I’ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

— John Luther Adams

What the work of art looks like isn't too important.

— Sol LeWitt

How can you measure the contribution that artists make to society?

— John Kurtz