Art Quote by Sarah Thornton

The art world's quite elitist. I tend to skirt around that world.

— Jamie Hewlett

Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't…

— Ai Weiwei

I think all good art is outsider art.

— Scott McClanahan

I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.

— John Waters

Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

— Robert Henri

For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that…

— Shepard Fairey

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

— Yann Martel

Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.

— Jerry Saltz

As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent to do…

— Laurence Boldt

I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not, like, in…

— David Shrigley

“Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen…

— Flannery O'Connor

I believe in the popularizing of art. But when you get right down to it, it's a bit of an elitist world. Not just…

— Larry Gagosian