Art Quote by James Frey

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into…

— Frank Stella

People classify things and that's fair enough. But if somebody wants to make something different, that doesn't make them any less of an artist.

— Dizzee Rascal

I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a…

— Michael Craig-Martin

All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?

— David Hockney

An artist is usually responsible only for the creation of a particular art. It's up to the critics to label it.

— Anupam Roy

People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

— Damien Hirst

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they…

— Gertrude Stein

Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I've worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was a kid…

— Brian McKnight

This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society,

— Ai Weiwei

There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.

— Ernst Gombrich

There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We…

— Russell Smith