Art Quote by Jane Alexander

I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

— Madonna Ciccone

I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's sake, and you know,…

— Sarah Jones

It may be fine for an artist to be indifferent to the reaction of the viewer to a work of art. A vigorous debate…

— Richard Edelman

Surely to root politics out of art is a highly necessary undertaking: for the freedom of art, like that of science, depends entirely upon…

— Wyndham Lewis

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

— Jerry Saltz

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

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy…

— Andy Goldsworthy

I think artists throughout the history of time have always been controversial and have been a voice to speak to public culture in a…

— Mark Foster

Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint…

— Kathryn Bigelow

There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks…

— Vaclav Havel

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

— Thom Yorke

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

— Yoko Ono