Art Quote by Douglas Adams

It's not ideal when art is seen as just some passing entertainment quickly thrown out into the market, like a consumer object. You have…

— Christine Leunens

Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only…

— John Marin

Art is basically entertainment.

— Yasumasa Morimura

I think art maybe has just become very consumer-oriented, and maybe it's always been that way because it is a business.

— Noel Wells

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

— Conor Oberst

Whether art is music or cinema or whatever, it really is art only when it is in touch with the people - forced to…

— Mikis Theodorakis

Artists tend to be people of strong character and opinion. Often they are dismissed in our culture if they don't fit a certain mainstream…

— Robert Greenwald

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive…

— Thom Mayne

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some…

— Ai Weiwei

Art is all about becoming a name, a brand; it isn't based on talent or creativity.

— Betty Dodson

We live in a media saturated world. I'm sure artists of the past would have dealt with it in just the same way. If…

— Grayson Perry

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

— Jennifer Aniston