Act Quote by Lloyd Kaufman

Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For…

— Elaine de Kooning

The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.

— John Updike

“Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its…

— Michael Kimmelman

Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint…

— Kathryn Bigelow

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

— Cornelia Parker

But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in…

— Stanley Elkin

As many have said before me, artists are creative people who can't be dragged into the politics of nations. I have always made a…

— Mahira Khan

I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.

— Ezra Furman

Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

— Asger Jorn

The sad fact is that actual artistic oppression - book banning in its many modern forms - is a matter of course in the…

— Andrew Breitbart

Art is one of those few legal monopolies. If you want to listen to Prince, Mick Jagger doesn't do. Nothing else in the world…

— Jack Conte