Art Quote by Pauline Kael

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

A lot of art can potentially make people uncomfortable, particularly when it deals with different times and hard issues.

— Mary Katharine Ham

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside…

— Jerry Saltz

It's not ideal when art is seen as just some passing entertainment quickly thrown out into the market, like a consumer object. You have…

— Christine Leunens

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have…

— Kehinde Wiley

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of…

— Shia LaBeouf

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

— Jennifer Aniston

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

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

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

— Oscar Wilde

“Good art is becoming hard to find these days. With political correctness, the internet, globalization, and multiculturalism, people are becoming pressured to be the…

— Robert Black