American Quote by John Updike

I think there's the apparent lack of subtlety and sort of make-believe anti-sensibility connected with American art. I think this is a style, and…

— Roy Lichtenstein

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes…

— Charlton Heston

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in…

— Robert Henri

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

— Len Wein

Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American.

— Renzo Piano

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

— Kingsley Amis

The Americans only like things they can label, even if it kills them. Think of those poor Latin American writers. Some of them are…

— Gore Vidal

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

— Henry Rollins

American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art.

— Woody Allen

Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives.

— Massimiliano Gioni

The 'low' quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few people wish…

— Tyler Cowen

The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements,…

— Henry Moore