Art Quote by Duke Ellington

When I was a teenager, I never knew anything about art. I think in South Africa at that stage, no one was really exposed…

— St. Lucia

There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.

— Hans Hofmann

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators…

— Henry Louis Gates

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

— Paul McCartney

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

If I had not grown up in Nigeria- and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images- I too would think that…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I'm more interested in history and culture than art.

— Richard Bacon

If you think about the way we experience art, the paradigm is still Western European. If I go to the National Gallery, what am…

— Kerry James Marshall

AN AFRICAN OUTSIDE OF AFRICA IS STILL AFRICAN

— CAMHAJ

I realized that you cannot think European and want to write or create something African. You have to think African in everything.

— Fela Kuti

Art is universal. When works of art become classics, it is because they transcend geographical boundaries, racial barriers and time.

— John Kani

I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and…

— Paul Robeson