Art Quote by John Dos Passos

He was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this; had any right, had…

— Martin Amis

What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it's the cornerstone of the American genius. As in: 'There's a…

— James Sallis

I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive person, the…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

“Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness. Mass production demanded the shift.…

— Aldous Huxley

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper and situation.…

— Edward Gibbon

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world.... Any writer who lacks this final arrogance…

— Gore Vidal

[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy…

— George Will

To require conformity in the appreciation of sentiments or the interpretation of language, or uniformity of thought, feeling, or action, is a fundamental error…

— Josiah Warren

Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is unacceptable in…

— Russell Smith

We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the…

— Wole Soyinka