Art Quote by Kingsley Amis

I feel like all the American artists are aesthetically not very interesting and mired in a complaining relationship to its own culture, whereas the…

— David Salle

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

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

— Raoul Dufy

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

— Henry Rollins

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

The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the…

— Carlisle Floyd

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.

— Edward Hopper

Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement.

— Gutzon Borglum

American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian…

— John Updike

American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.

— Gutzon Borglum

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

— Len Wein

There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack of prejudice…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen