Art Quote by Robert Smithson

Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some…

— Anne Roiphe

Whoever is in charge of the artist will always have the upper hand. They act like it's the artists' world, but it's the other…

— Sonny Sandoval

When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.

— Ryan Lewis

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.

— Robert Smithson

We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over…

— Peter Block

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner…

— Henri Matisse

“Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.”

— Jim Morrison

There are people who are like monkeys in a cage just hitting the coke button. They don't really get that for [musicians and artists]…

— Maynard James Keenan

I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't…

— Lyor Cohen

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

— Ai Weiwei

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls…

— Thom Yorke

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

— Maya Lin