Art Quote by David Hockney

I'm interested in making art that is available to everybody.

— Rostam Batmanglij

I don't believe that to be mainstream you have to be foolish. I don't think you have to be a buffoon to sell. I…

— Mani Ratnam

I've always been interested in art.

— Arthur Smith

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.

— Robert Hughes

I tend to keep my mind open to the different forms of art out there and I am always willing to try new stuff.

— St. Lucia

I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more…

— Francis Bacon

I stopped worrying about competition in contemporary art. It feels a little bit more pure. That's where I am, one step back.

— Takashi Murakami

Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary, and I…

— Luis Gonzalez

It's almost a social grace to get into the art world, and I'm very wary of it. Art was good in Berlin in the…

— David Bowie

For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that…

— Shepard Fairey

Video games have become this really weird medium where it's not quite mainstream but it's not quite art either.

— Mike Tucker

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any…

— Steve Martin