Art Quote by Michael Scott

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

— Golda Meir

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they…

— Gertrude Stein

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

— Vladimir Nabokov

All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

— Lionel Hampton

One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by…

— Tino Sehgal

But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address the question…

— Alain de Botton

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

— Jane Alexander

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

— Clement Greenberg

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

— Andre Gide

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

— Clive Bell

No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.

— Meridel Le Sueur