Art Quote by John Martyn

People still kind of think of me as like a folk artist, but on the first record, I truly was deferring to other people…

— Phoebe Bridgers

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

— Alan Parsons

I'm not a go-out-with-a-band artist. I'm an intimate, storytelling folk artist. It guides the writing and makes for a concert that I'm proud of.

— Shawn Colvin

I would like to be referred to as 'The Big Aristotle'.

— Shaquille O'Neal

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

— Leslie Fiedler

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

— Mos Def

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

— Cass McCombs

I absolutely love American folk art, can't get enough of it.

— Lara Spencer

As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out…

— F. Sionil Jose

I would love to do something with Mohit Chauhan and other folk artists.

— Neha Bhasin

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

— Noam Chomsky

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

— Theodor Adorno

I'm actually really obsessed with folk art.

— Michael Bastian

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.

— John Rothenstein

In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romantic, patriotic,…

— Gilbert Seldes