Art Quote by Harold Rosenberg

Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.

— Deborah Eisenberg

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

— Jasper Johns

I believe in the democratization of the arts. What do I mean by that? I think museums, with some exceptions, have a responsibility to…

— Eli Broad

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address the question…

— Alain de Botton

What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.

— Tom Rachman

Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises…

— Harold Rosenberg

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world,

— Dana Gioia

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

— Dana Loesch

The moment you try to institutionalize art, it ceases to be art.

— Allen Wier

“In a fearful, eroding democracy, it remains to be seen whether art continues to be free to act in the public sphere or is…

— Gregory Sholette