Art Quote by Lafcadio Hearn

I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to…

— Jacques Lipchitz

“Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

— Emma Goldman

I always tell my fans that are closest to me, if it's not coming from my mouth, my website, or my appointed person, then…

— Katy Perry

I have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true.

— James L. Brooks

What seems most likely is generally true.

— Rae Foley

The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had…

— Susan Sontag

Cartoons are perhaps a bigger part of art than is generally realized, and they influence people in ways that are not always recognized. But…

— Jim Woodring

The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in…

— Robert Henri

Comparing Oceanic art generally with Negro art, it has a livelier, thin flicker, but much of it is more two-dimensional and concerned with pattern…

— Henry Moore

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in…

— John Ruskin

With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope that at…

— Colin Powell