Arguing Quote by James Broughton

Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private…

— Richard Eyre

What's interesting about art in public spaces is that the public really sort of takes over and uses it in ways that you didn't…

— Teresita Fernandez

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I never intended to make art.

— Walt Disney

Not every work of art connects with the audience.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it.

— Elmer Rice

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

— Roy Lichtenstein

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

— Richard Foreman

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

— Balthus

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

— John Baldessari

Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.

— Jane Smiley

Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

— Joyce Carol Oates