Art Quote by Larry Gagosian

For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that…

— Shepard Fairey

The art world's quite elitist. I tend to skirt around that world.

— Jamie Hewlett

For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property…

— Robert Pinsky

I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.

— John Waters

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside…

— Jerry Saltz

I read poetry every day. I look at it as an exercise, a kind of T'ai Chi for writers. It teaches economy of form.

— Roger Zelazny

I've been in the art world for many years. But the sad fact is that most writers are visually prepubescent. Generally speaking, the literary…

— Richard Grossman

Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact…

— Todd Solondz

It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create,…

— Adam Davidson

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he…

— W. H. Auden

I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can write poetry…

— Adrienne Rich

I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people…

— Jada Pinkett Smith