Alienation Quote by Nicholas Royle

It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and…

— Archie Shepp

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

— Dexter Gordon

Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.

— Darryl Pinckney

Our Onirisme movement was a synthesis between the Romantic Fantastique and Surrealism. Dimov and I rejected automatic writing. We loved surrealist painters: Chirico, Magritte,…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

If you think about the way we experience art, the paradigm is still Western European. If I go to the National Gallery, what am…

— Kerry James Marshall

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists…

— Tom Stoppard

“Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd, and inaccessible he is, the more he…

— Mircea Eliade

The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

The great countercultural movement that we all know from the mid-1960s was epitomised by popular music. But within a few years another shift happened:…

— Tony Robinson

Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat…

— J. G. Ballard

“...and any discussion of art vs. entertainment in the present cultural climate invites accusations of elitism and snobbery.”

— Steven Moore