Art Quote by Michael Craig-Martin

There is no doubt when one comes from the West to China one understands pop art as having originally developed as part of Western…

— Michael Craig-Martin

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

— Hilton Als

Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than painting a…

— Brice Marden

When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five centuries of…

— Arne Glimcher

There is the specter of "realism" that is still haunting Chinese contemporary art - that art is only an instrument, an instrument to reflect…

— Wang Jianwei

All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest human performance…

— Ai Weiwei

Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.

— John Wayne

Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.

— Ibn Warraq

Art is universal. When works of art become classics, it is because they transcend geographical boundaries, racial barriers and time.

— John Kani

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

— Jim Dine

In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special case; we…

— Jay L. Garfield

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

— Andrew Hoberek