Able Quote by Douglas Wilson

Some of our most powerful works of art have been produced by older Americans-by hands that have engaged in years of hard work, eyes…

— Hillary Clinton

As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we…

— Mohsin Hamid

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

— Eric Fischl

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and…

— Keith Haring

If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of…

— Marshall McLuhan

We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.

— Asger Jorn

As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete,…

— Robert Genn

I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people,…

— Christy Turlington

Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.

— Brian Chesky

This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture - and…

— Werner Herzog

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

— Elizabeth Bowen