Art Quote by Rachel Kushner

“High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn’t speak language that’s acceptable to people, it relegates…

— Thomas Kinkade

Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give…

— Raf Simons

You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes…

— Romare Bearden

The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is…

— Banksy

“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

Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect.

— Jerry Saltz

...it is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the public...should be proud of being…

— Leo Steinberg

I really believe that art has to play a role in changing the moral direction. Mean, selfish people are in charge of the government…

— Steve Almond

“[...] 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 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

“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

“The fable of the Emperor’s New Clothes is brought up time and again, a conspiracy to dupe someone, a pretense designed to make the…

— Dan Fox