Arguing Quote by Jerry Saltz

The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition,…

— Jerry Saltz

Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me…

— Jerry Saltz

The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality more pure.…

— Paddy Johnson

I've got a nice collection of paintings - a Basquiat, a black-and-white Warhol that's like a Rorschach test, and I commissioned Takashi Murakami to…

— Jay-Z

I keep [portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust] at home, in my residence, where I live permanently. It's a very good, high-quality work…

— Vladimir Putin

There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to…

— Richard Phillips

Nowadays anyone can show their art to anybody via the Internet.

— Kesh

Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the…

— Jane Alexander

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.

— Philip Guston

“It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of media than…

— Robert Hughes

You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)

— Dennis Oppenheim

“I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wise,…

— Lepota L. Cosmo