Affording Quote by Robert Hughes

All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who…

— Ava DuVernay

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

— Raymond Chandler

The moment you try to institutionalize art, it ceases to be art.

— Allen Wier

“The job of art is not to store moments of experience but to explore environments that are otherwise invisible. Art is not a retrieval…

— Marshall McLuhan

“Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let’s face it,…

— Betty Edwards

Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows;…

— Pauline Kael

“The real reason that students and increasingly teachers of art history are ready to jettison the past, however, is that the refusal of the…

— Christopher S. Wood

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

“The cessation of art is something that can only be accomplished when art disappears into its own excess. And that occasion, according to Baudrillard,…

— Eldritch Priest

“The claims of contemporary art cannot be ignored in any vital scheme of life. The art of to-day is that which really belongs to…

— Kakuzō Okakura

“Artists are the architects of our future. The messages they deliver through music, film and television are what guides popular culture. If we want…

— TAMMY (McCrary

“Art is the medium through which new thoughts, perspectives, and attitudes are brought into the world.”

— James Rozoff