Art Quote by Gregory Sholette

“The false democracy that places art and random uploads side by side has, I believe, led too many to believe that art is easy…

— Jonathan Taplin

Take the Money and Run? Can Political and Socio-Critical Art ‘Survive’?

— Martha Rosler

“Art becomes so specialized as to be comprehensible only to artists, and they complain bitterly of public indifference to their work. Competition arises. The…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Art can be political, but when it becomes politicized, the purity is ruined.

— Dana Loesch

I think art has a right — not an obligation — to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go on from…

— Geoffrey Hill

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

Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.

— George R. R. Martin

“Those seeking political and economic change should consider embracing art. Part of our role as citizens is to look more closely at the media…

— Jonathan Taplin

Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“art is self-sufficient and need serve no moral or political purpose”

— Walter Pater

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to…

— Hans Haacke

Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.

— Richard Serra