19th century Quote by DJ Spooky

In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what…

— Bill Viola

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

— Sigfried Giedion

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

— Tom Stoppard

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then…

— Brian Eno

A lot of abstract painters seem to be doing everything all at once now. And so these different styles are jibing and not so…

— Edward Ruscha

Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.

— Seth Godin

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

At one point cinema and photography weren't treated as art. Now it's crazy to think they're not. The key question is "What is art…

— Ferran Adria

I never heard the term "art world" until I was in my thirties, and I was like, "What are you guys talking about?" It's…

— Zoe Leonard

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

— Robert Barry

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

— Sol LeWitt

Today we no longer know what to call art, what its function is and even less what function it will have in the future.…

— Michelangelo Antonioni