Art Quote by Richard Prince

It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative, and not just in terms of politics…

— Richard Prince

As a political activist you run the risk of having to settle for one compromise or another in order to achieve your goals. Artists…

— Josephine Meckseper

Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time…

— Anton Chekhov

I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you…

— Eve Ensler

What happens with artists, or people who start off doing things for the right reasons, is that you slowly start to paint yourself into…

— Lindsey Buckingham

Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle, and bored;…

— Lawrence Wright

I'm not a politically radical person. In fact, I'm much more interested in being radical aesthetically.

— Jim Goldberg

If you try consciously to be avant-garde, it's a little dangerous, like the present state of modern painting, where dealers try to be avant-garde,…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and…

— Nathan Oliveira

Artists are the radical voice of civilization.

— Paul Robeson

On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions…

— C. D. Innes

Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even…

— Rachel Kushner