Art Quote by Edward Ruscha

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

— Zadie Smith

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in…

— Robert Henri

And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my…

— Maya Deren

I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate…

— Walt Whitman

As an artist, you're just observing the world around you. So much is overwhelming and it's all so inescapable that it can't all speak…

— Laura Jane Grace

We ultimately use good art as a tool for people to contextualize themselves, and the folks in all the places we play experience it…

— Liv Bruce

I think there's the apparent lack of subtlety and sort of make-believe anti-sensibility connected with American art. I think this is a style, and…

— Roy Lichtenstein

I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do…

— Joel Kinnaman

For much of America, the all-American values depicted in Norman Rockwell's classic illustrations are idealistic. For those of us from Vermont, they're realistic. That's…

— Bernie Sanders

I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.

— Sholom Aleichem

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

— Kingsley Amis