Accepting Quote by Oscar Wilde

You have to challenge people to reconsider what is art, what is taste. Because it's someone's point-of-view.

— Sean Stone

The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want…

— Oscar Wilde

Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

— Diego Rivera

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade…

— Oscar Wilde

Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to…

— Bill Watterson

It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very…

— Esperanza Spalding

In the art world, originality is seen as a precious commodity and its increasingly difficult to get because the territory of art is so…

— Grayson Perry

As long as artists arbitrarily assume the right to decide what is or is not art, it is logical that the public will just…

— Leon Krier

Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends on individual…

— Sarah Thornton

“Today, no one is scandalized; society has found ways to nullify the provocative potential of a work of art, adopting before it an attitude…

— André Breton

“[...] For the first time ever, images of art have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available, valueless, free. They surround us in the same way…

— John Berger

Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.

— Jane Smiley