Art Quote by David Longstreth

“It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of media than…

— Robert Hughes

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address the question…

— Alain de Botton

Is there really any relationship between artists' personal conduct and their art? Certainly not.

— Fred Kaplan

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

— Elizabeth Bowen

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

— Hilton Als

“Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its…

— Michael Kimmelman

Artists are the emotional historians of the world.

— Richard Blanco

I think that an obsession with art history gave rise to the work.

— Kehinde Wiley

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

— John Chamberlain

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.

— Susan Sontag

The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.

— Quentin Bell

The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago...

— Thomas Hoving